Word: outflanks
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...Alabama Governor surely does not mind a bit of name-calling so long as he accomplishes his purpose, which is to outflank Nixon on the right. Wallace won five states, primarily from Nixon, as a third-party candidate in the 1968 presidential election, and patently hopes to win more if he can squeeze his way into an even more conservative position on busing than Nixon...
...both occasions, police moved through Harvard Yard to outflank the youths. City officials had warned the University beforehand that police would use the Yard "if necessary," and told police to do so without further notification to Harvard...
About 60 Cambridge police used Harvard Yard to outflank youths gathered on the Cambridge Common the night of August...
...more moderate and rational post-Mao China back into the community of nations, will have to assuage China's fears. But the Soviets, who face a much more immediate danger from China, may be unwilling to pull back from any position that has enabled them to outflank a potentially dangerous enemy...
Proper Wasps still rule in tight little enclaves of high society that are rarely cracked by newcomers. Yet anyone with a will-and money-can find a way to outflank Wasp society, which is often haunted by a sense of anachronism. Such is the hostility to the Veiled Prophet parade, an annual Wasp event in St. Louis, that the queen and her maids of honor last year had to be covered with a plastic sheet to protect them from missiles tossed from the crowd...