Word: flanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted money. Uppermost in Alessandri's mind are his country's Andean-sized needs. Lying along South America's mountainous Pacific flank, Chile has one of the world's richest copper deposits, but, apart from minerals, few other natural resources. Copper production is at a record, but prices have dropped and the ore does not bring in as much as it used to. There is drought in the southern farm lands, and Chileans are still repairing the $400 million damage from catastrophic earthquakes 2½ years ago. Chile also shares some of the woes common...
...Bulldogs also vary their formations quite a bit. Besides the wing T and the straight T, they have occasionally run from the double wing and even the shotgun formation. At times they will flank a halfback wide or split one or both their ends...
...what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while a sailor is whipped, his mouth frames a silent "eleven." Then, standing alone at the rail, he continues to strike his own flank with his rattan crop, privately counting out lash after lash in seething frustration. Ustinov, who produced and directed the film and helped write the script, has the good taste to resist turning Billy's fate into a jeremiad, or Vere's torment into a tour de force...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal's flank...