Word: gallopped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gallop past" by the King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery -in which three score plumed cavalry men rattle past at full gallop, swords raised, hooves beating and gun carriages thundering behind - is so intricate and dangerous that it is rarely used even for visiting royalty. Last week Queen Elizabeth, who had never seen the ceremony herself, ordered it performed to mark the state visit of Saudi Arabia's King Feisal, the somber and bearded monarch who has emerged as leader of the moderate forces op posing the pan-Arabism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...life. Set against him throughout and surviving him at last is one of the new businessmen, a greased, grotesque man of the sort who scorns religion by spitting in the holy water. The action is ineluctable, the outcome foregone and well-augured. The end is a wild, terrible gallop. The old horse rears to avoid running onto the bow of an abandoned boat and the Zamindar falls, his prized blood dampening the sand...
...Good Gallop...
...squad boosted its 5-0 lead when wing Tom Choquette scored on a gallop from midfield. Choquette later assisted in the final try in a passing combination with Steve Zeitlin just after Boston scored its only tally...
...trouble began late in 1965. Demand started to gallop far ahead of the nation's supply of skilled labor and its capacity to produce, setting the stage for a classic "demand-pull" inflation. Economists say that inflation occurs when prices rise 2% a year or more, which often happens when times are good, money is easy, and too many dollars chase too few goods. At such times, manufacturers borrow heavily to increase production and work forces, and output jumps unnaturally high. Prices climb ever upward. Unless the Government acts quickly and wisely to restore stability, a day of reckoning...