Word: flank
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...penetration down [Harvard's] left flank, particularly in the first half," Hartwick Coach Jim Lennox said...
...delegate despite the Ogonyok attack, while the passionate playwright Gelman was not. There and elsewhere Gorbachev has shown a well-tuned instinct for the safe middle ground. When he dumped Yeltsin, the pro-perestroika Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods...
...choice as political nebbish suddenly transformed himself into the prim reaper who could not be denied. Bush last week harvested victories from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Oklahoma and Texas. His weakest rival, Jack Kemp, promptly quit the Republican contest. Pat Robertson, another ostensible threat on Bush's right flank, collapsed in a puddle of his failings as a candidate, finishing third even in his home state of Virginia. Though still in the race, Robertson receded into a symbolic candidacy and began talking about...
...projects would flank a pedestrian walkway through their block from Brattle St. to the part of Mt. Auburn St. opposite the Charles Hotel. Architects of the project have said they hope this "Brattle Walk" will create more "public space" and make it easier for shoppers to reach Charles Square boutiques from the main Harvard Square shopping district...
...reluctant concession for the U.S., which regards the fighters as a crucial link in the defense of NATO's southern flank. But Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez insisted that the withdrawal was necessary to comply with a promise to reduce the U.S. military presence in Spain in return for passage of a 1986 referendum endorsing the country's continued membership in NATO. Agreement on the F-16 issue should also smooth the way for a new treaty that will allow continued U.S. access to other bases on Spanish soil...