Word: airing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crowd was especially enthusiastic when a "fight" broke out during the scrimmage, although the participants' grins and repeated punches that caught only air made the scuffle seem about as realistic as a WWF wresting match...
...football season has been a roller coaster ride for Harvard thus far, and it sure looks like junior running back Chris Menick is leading the way with his arms up in the air...
Against the Crusaders, Menick scored all three Harvard touchdowns en route to joining Eion Hu '97 and Vic Gatto '69 as the only backs in school history to rush for more than 2,000 career yards. He scored on the ground, he scored through the air and he scored in overtime. But he also had two fumbles in the second half, giving the Crusaders the chance they needed to tie the game. Menick's play dictated the momentum of the game...
Cruise missiles were the silent partner in the high-stakes diplomacy going on last week to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his brutal siege of Kosovo and negotiate with the province's ethnic Albanians. The U.S. has already used its arsenal of air- and sea-launched cruise missiles to turn out Baghdad's lights during the Gulf War, retaliate against terrorists and assassins, and force the Serbs to the peace table in Dayton, Ohio. Now Serbia and Yugoslav President Milosevic are in the crosshairs again. If the massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo do not stop, NATO warns...
...that they are effective only against targets that don't move. That means they cannot be used to drive out the troops and police who are brutalizing Kosovo's civilians. So the NATO plan is to use the cruise missiles as a first strike, to disarm Serbia's dangerous air-defense system and make the sky safe for follow-up attacks by allied planes...