As the 2nd Infantry Division entered the valley, later known as the "Gauntlet", the Chinese machine guns delivered punishing fire while mortar shells saturated the road.
Speculation that my guy was back in the drug game took off quickly, with LA Weekly going so far as ask if he's the new Prince of Pot due to his arrest in what's known as the Emerald Triangle of marijuana production in northern California.The entire area on Highway 101 North of San Francisco where Rick was pulled over is sometimes referred to as "The Gauntlet" because of a heavy police presence.
China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, as much as threw down the gauntlet last year, saying he believed that China's trade with Southeast Asia would reach $100 billion by 2005, just shy of the $120 billion in trade the United States does with the region.
And, frankly, if you've survived such boarding school initiation rites as "Running the Gauntlet" or "Spanking the Monkey", the rainforest floor seems almost inviting.
Designated asylum seekers from the Balkans and elsewhere made places like the Konstablerwache, a central square in Frankfurt, a place where walking through was referred to as "running the gauntlet" already a decade ago.
Upon his desk, Lara discovers the gauntlet as well as a tape-recorded message, warning her that Helhiem contains a powerful weapon.
He regards Bush's appointment of Gale Norton, an environmental hawk, as Secretary of the Interior, and his selection of Spencer Abraham, a champion of the auto industry, as Secretary of Energy, as "throwing down the gauntlet" to Republican environmentalists... What would the original T.R. have thought?
Even with this defence, he and his brother George were attacked several times as they ran the gauntlet from the jetty to the other end of the island.
And then at dawn he witnesses the colonel, who a few hours earlier had been dancing, mercilessly overseeing a prisoner being savagely beaten as he runs the gauntlet.
Barry Loser star of Jim Smith's I Am Not a Loser series similarly learns to cope as he runs the gauntlet of the kind of mockery everyone dreads about school.
"I don't think of it as throwing down the gauntlet.
