Word: catapults
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Burmese soldiers digging deeper trenches across the way. Ammunition is scarce, and so the Karens rely on mines handcrafted from bamboo and fuse-lighted grenades that are no more sophisticated than the ancient British Grenadier devices that gave them the name. Sometimes the Karens launch the grenades by catapult, stretching thick rubber bands between two stakes like a giant slingshot...
Rainey sparked the Crimson to its first-ever Heptagonals championships this year during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. In Ithaca, N.Y., Rainey won the 55-meter, the 400-meter and the 800-meter races to help catapult Harvard to a first place finish at the indoor Heps. And Rainey ran an astounding total of six events at the spring Heps in Philadelhia, winning three of them...
Political scientists say that the book may catapult Nye into a high-profile debate with Yale University's Paul Kennedy...
...uncle Jieu Jieu, the wise peasant who boasts an "unwashable brain," Lord sees the best aspects of the masses in whose name the Chinese revolution was waged. Supremely pragmatic, Jieu Jieu never bought Chairman Mao's line that the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s would instantly catapult China into the ranks of industrialized countries. On the other hand, Lord broods over the dilemma of an elderly scholar whose Western education made him an outcast in a society that he resentfully characterizes as "of the peasant, by the peasant and for the peasant...
...widely publicized high-tech initiatives. According to reports circulating in Washington, the Administration was determined to cut not only the $10 million it had pledged for research into high-definition television, but all federal support -- including $100 million in 1991 -- for Sematech, the Reagan-era industrial consortium designed to catapult the U.S. into the lead in the technologies for manufacturing computer chips...