Word: flank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Raphaelite painting that now fetches $100,000. The $30,000 Tiffany lamp was not worth $3,000, and so on. One is left with the impression-indeed it is cultivated assiduously by the largest gaggle of public relations people ever to batten on the flank of culture-that art prices can only go up; the market has transcended its old uncertainty, whether the objects are million-dollar Titians or ten-buck trash "collectibles...
Sophomore co-captain Reed joins Fischer and freshman Vicki Palmer on a line, and Barb Coffin (0-0-0) and newcomer Rosemary Mahoney flank (yet another) freshman, Amy Spalding, to form the third line...
...Taunton Sport Parachuting Center would be a complex--hangars, training and meeting rooms, a cafeteria, office and parachute lofts. It would be the pride of Taunton, I imagined. It would grace the flank of their small municipal airport, attracting small town heroes, coquettes, and gawkers. It would be the center stage for a boy's dive into manhood...
Restraining institutional expansion is another of her goals. Graham, who lives on Harvard's Western Ave. flank, advocates taking by eminent domain land that Cambridge's universities have not yet developed, adding she supports a recently-filed bill to rein in institutional growth...
Housing for other oil workers is a miserable patchwork, almost as if patterned on the primitive mud huts of the Iranian countryside. Open sewers flank the area, while dogs nose their way through mounds of exposed garbage. The smell of filth permeates the air. The only sign of 20th century amenities is a spate of television aerials atop most of the homes. "They tried to buy us with television," says one of the local strike leaders, who would identify himself only with the nom de guerre Hossein. "My father used to tell us about this land with tears...