Word: galloped
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...against his cheekbone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
...cheek-bone. Memory flashed: the carnage that had stared back at him from the mirror the night before, the purple polka-dot bruises that dappled his face and shoulders and back. Like the flanks of an Appaloosa horse, he thought to himself; then, because he had lost his gallop and barbed wire fenced-in his prairie, he thought again--a spotted fawn, tucktail and fear-frozen at the sound of a pine cone dropping. Except it was more like a pine tree that had fallen...
Does it send a chill down your spine to see a live Trojan on a snorting white horse gallop around the Los Angeles Coliseum when the University of Southern California scores a touchdown...
...mask of the Dallas Cowboys' Roger Staubach, one of the most calmly efficient quarterbacks in N.F.L. history. At 36, he is at the height of his skills. Roger the Dodger, the U.S. Naval Academy scrambler who came into the pros ten years ago with a pronounced tendency to gallop away with the ball, has long since matured into a sharp-eyed passer whose forte is picking apart the secondary, not romping down the sidelines. To avoid destruction, Staubach goes to ground with a hook slide that would do a major league base runner proud: "My instincts resist...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore's Jones likes it up the middle...