Word: aegises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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On the scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers...
June Howe, president of the NeighborhoodAssociation, wrote in a letter to HarvardPresident Derek C. Bok that, "The Mission Hillneighborhood is once again threatened by a largescale development, under the aegis of HarvardUniversity, with little prospect that ourlegitimate concerns will be respected by thecurrent beneficiaries of Harvard's largeness."