Word: flanks
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...buck had bruised its flank badly when something, probably dogs, frightened it, and its mate now lying dead in the gorge below, into scrambling over great boulders onto the ledge. It might have rested there comfortably, with dew to lick and foliage to nibble, until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from...
...these "frescoes" is a personification of the U. S. landscape as a naked girl: She lies on her left side her flank golden: Her hair is burned black with the strong sun: The scent of her hair is of dust and of smoke on her shoulders: She has brown breasts and the mouth of no other country...
...Manhattan to become board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., a director in National City Bank and the most potent man in the Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright utility holding company. United Corp., was elected a director of United Gas Improvement Co., whose Philadelphia. Connecticut and New Jersey properties flank the Morgan system...
...matched. Backfields use complex maneuvers which require split-second timing and the accuracy of basketballers in passing. Lateral passes develop from forwards, forwards from laterals, spinners and reverses have complications impossible and unnecessary for amateur teams. There are few long end runs because professional ends are too fast to flank, almost no double wing back formations for the same reason. Serious injuries are rare, not because professionals lack zeal and dirty craft, but because, since substitutes are usually as able as the men they replace, there is nothing to be gained by disabling opponents...
...Brown enabled it to accomplish a feat unequaled by an Eastern team since Pitt and Navy in 1910 played through a whole season with out being scored against. Brown's chief weapon this year was an unusual "triple wingback" offense, designed by Coach De Ormond ("Tuss") McLaughry to flank both tackles and one end. Colgate, coached by Andy Kerr, a wiry, witty little Scot who was Glenn Warner's predecessor at Stanford (and who, many experts think, teaches Warner football better than Wizard Warner), has an amazingly complicated attack, based not on power but on a multiplicity...