Word: flanks
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...drops that grew as they acquired boldness, how lumps of sugar had substituted for whips in their training. On the runway, 60 feet up, the horses whinnied softly, and pushed their noses at electric light bulbs which they mistook for golden pears. A girl touched the leader on the flank. The horse stretched on the runway like a great cat, launched its four hoofs into the air and, for an imperceptible second, hung suspended so, in the image of Pegasus, a steed thrown sunward- then curved heavily, fiercely down burying its gloss in the brown water of a tank...
...whole forward line, with the exception of L. L. Driggs '28, has had university experience. Driggs starred last year on his Freshman team at outer left and will cover the same flank this afternoon...
Rensselaer Polytechnic will be well fortified in reserve material, 28 players making the trip from Troy. Of these 12 are backs, six are flank men, two are centers, and the remainder are guards and tackles...
...plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
...greatest success in the World War was in 1914 before Verdun. Ordered to fall back, he refused. His refusal allowed Marshal Joffre to stage a counterattack on the right flank of Sarrail's command and the engagement ended in the saving of Verdun. Had not Sarrail disobeyed orders, the course of the War might have been very different...