Word: breakaway
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Even though Lebed, 45, now dresses in pinstripe suits, his bayonet-straight bearing and telegraphic speech immediately mark him as a military man. He is the former commander of Russia's 14th Army in the breakaway Trans-Dniestr region of the republic of Moldova, and he appeals to voters who yearn for a plainspoken general on a white charger to put things in order...
...with them the idea of monotheism." Only after they had united in a sort of tribal league did they become the Israelites, and while they undoubtedly fought their neighbors for territory, it was only after they were firmly established in Canaan. An alternate theory: the Israelites were simply a breakaway group of Canaanites fed up with the existing society...
...first period alone, Harvard allowed five odd-man rushes against, including a two-on-none breakaway. Fortunately for the Crimson, freshman goalie Peter Zakowich came up huge in the period, allowing none of those to be converted to goals...
...EIGHT MONTHS, RUSSIAN TROOPS and armor pounded the breakaway Chechen republic into rubble. Then for nearly four months an uneasy peace reigned, after Islamic rebels agreed to a truce on July 30 that few expected to last. Last week the doomsayers looked fairly prophetic, as huge bomb blasts wracked the capital of Grozny and narrowly missed killing Moscow's handpicked political leader...
Seconds after Nielsen scored Harvard's only goal of the game. Nielsen had a breakaway up the right wing but his shot veered wide left...