Word: attackable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore center Bernard Jackson keyed the Cornell attack, scoring 10 points and pulling down 15 rebounds, all off the defensive boards. After missing three easy lay-ups earlier in the game, Jackson put Cornell ahead, 70-69, with two minutes left in regulation. His short hhok shot with 80 seconds remaining in overtime again gave the Big Red a lead...
Yale thought it was going to with-stand the Crimson's frenzied attack when it scored at the 1:10 mark of the second period to narrow the score to 2-1. The Elis' leading scorer Heather Gold, who was camped out in front of the Harvard net, flicked the puck past Harvard goaltender Jen White...
...Khrushchev was diluting Marxist-Leninist dogma. Border talks in 1978 began to melt the two-decade freeze. But before normalcy could be achieved, two outbreaks of hostilities in Asia seriously disturbed China. One was the invasion of Kampuchea by Viet Nam, a Soviet ally, which eventually provoked a "punitive attack" by Chinese troops on Hanoi's territory. The second was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which revived China's longstanding fear of Russian "hegemony...
...course, had a raft of contingency plans in case of a nuclear attack. One called for the emergency evacuation by helicopter, from the South Lawn, of the President and the 50 or so people who made up the heart of the Government. They were to be whisked to the Blue Ridge Mountains and secreted in a command post under 600 ft. of stone, from there to run the war and the nation. Some newsmen were to be included to send out dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay...
...When the President and his inner circle were briefed on the plans to hurry to the South Lawn for the helicopter lift, one aide was deeply troubled. This fellow went to the President and told Kennedy that he did not plan to leave the White House and his family, attack or not. Kennedy reportedly looked up with that wry smile on his face and said, "That's O.K. Neither do I. I'm staying right here." So much for the doomsday scenario...