Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...junkies and homosexuals lolling on their beds. About halfway through, Warhol switches to color; he blasts the face of a blond boy with orange light. For a half-hour we watch him under various lights while he slithers out of his pants, culminating in a view of his bare flank. When the films runs out, the movie ends...
...citizens and inflicting terrible damage on the city. Herculaneum, however, was more fortunate. Granted time by the wind, which blew west toward Pompeii, nearly all of Herculaneum's 5,000 inhabitants were able to flee before the wall of hot lava and mud rolled down Vesuvius' flank, so gently that it left eggshells on some lunch tables. The town vanished, almost intact, to a depth of 65 to 85 feet...
Lyndon Johnson obviously hopes that his mission to Asia will have served the dual purpose of covering an international flank for his country and a political one for his party. The G.O.P. is frankly concerned that the last-minute "Johnson blitz," as Richard Nixon labeled it last week, may have a major effect on the outcome of the elections. As if anticipating criticism that his Asia tour was planned solely for political advantage back home, Johnson admitted to Premier Ky in Manila: "People may say it's just propaganda, but let's hope it's more than...
...Whatever the verdict history eventually passes on Mr. Johnson's policy in Viet Nam, he has shown that the United States is as willing to exert its influence in Asia as it is in Europe. The shift of America's weight to its Pacific flank is making itself felt...
...more than 10,000 tons of oil careered over the Great North Road last month, trucked in at flank speed by hastily assembled fleets of bruised Bedfords and long-haul Leylands with 25-ton trailers. The sides of the trucks are painted with such slogans as "Zambia Forever" and "Death to Ian Smith...