Word: gallop
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...last few minutes before the hour of doom in the north, told of the Russian strokes. One had breached the German lines only 24 miles from Berlin. Another had won the Seelow heights west of Küstrin. A great concentration of Cossack horsemen and tankmen was ready to gallop and clatter upon Berlin. An order of the day issued over Adolf Hitler's name shrilled that this was the last great attack...
Irishman No. 2 is red-haired Robert Kelly, the only real speedster in Notre Dame's backfield. Against Pittsburgh, the rosy-cheeked V12 right halfback handled the ball 14 times, gained 232 yards, raced to four touchdowns (one an 84-yard gallop). Against Tulane, his change-of-pace foxing of the defense enabled him to pull down the first touchdown pass. But Kelly's span at South Bend may be short; he completes his V12 training about...
Coming suddenly in the third period, the game's only score saw Fodor gather in a pass on the Lowell 30 and gallop down the sidelines to go into the end-zone standing...
Whoa! In Akron, the City Council, dismayed by the recklessness of local horsemen, adopted an ordinance prohibiting riders from putting their mounts through a trot, canter or gallop within city limits...
...thoughts I compare myself to a man driving three horses.. . . One of these horses is young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time. . . . The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states. And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare to mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please...