Word: blackhawks
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Though Clinton did well among women and senior citizens, Obama's win was wide and deep. He did unusually well in the college towns of Ames, Iowa City and Grinnell as well as the labor bastion of Blackhawk county. Meanwhile, in Des Moines, teenagers in cars "scooped the loop" along the downtown streets and yelled Obama's name - "Whoohoo! Obama! Fired up!" - in the icy night...
...ship off for duty--becomes a surrogate mother to keep the family afloat (a reminder of how stretched military families often are). Roland (Sterling K. Brown) deals with his returned-vet wife's drinking and post-traumatic stress disorder. Denise (Catherine Bell) waits anxiously after her husband's Blackhawk crashes in Iraq. Only one spouse goes to war, the show says, but the whole family goes under siege...
...launched a massive relief operation in April 1992, the U.S. was drawn into the conflict - at first guarding the relief, then delivering it, then attacking the warlords that were stealing it. In October 1993, in events depicted in the film Black Hawk Down, Somali militiamen shot down a Blackhawk helicopter over Mogadishu and 18 U.S. servicemen were killed in the crash and subsequent rescue attempt. After gruesome scenes of the bodies of some American servicemen being stripped and paraded through the streets of the city were flashed around the world, the U.S. withdrew from Somalia by March...
...interlocks are merely another step down the slippery slope of imposing ever more obtrusive punishments on people who have not been convicted of a crime. You don’t have to be a Montana libertarian—always on the lookout for the U.N.’s Blackhawk helicopters—to see this as another step toward an Orwellian world where the government has a lock-iron grip on individual actions in the name of health and safety...
Word of the kidnapping spread quickly among U.S. soldiers around Baghdad Monday night. Even pilots in the air heard about the disappearance soon after. I first learned of the abduction from a Blackhawk crewman, who shouted the news into my ear amid the roar of the helicopter's rotors...