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Word: choked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fans. Following his team's 9-0 shellacking, Army coach Paul Assaiante offered the evaluation that, "although Princeton's pretty tough on racket skills, Harvard's probably better." "In other words," Crimson number two Geordie Lemmon paraphrasea the Cadet mentor, "He's telling us, 'Don't get excited and choke...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Crimson Crushes Cadets; Brog Topples No. 1 Tiger | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...Patricia Neal Story (CBS). Prime time offered enough triumph-over-a-bizarre-disease TV movies to choke a hospital, but Dirk Bogarde and the redoubtable Glenda Jackson made this particular version wrenching and true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of 1981: Video | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...offers no alternative to large-scale reductions and seems more interested in scolding Warnke for describing NATO build-up plans in terms of their political motivations. The new systems would be "ideal for striking logistical 'choke points' at the rear of an attacking Soviet army," Walt says. Warnke and numerous other experts have pointed out that existing U.S. land-and sea-based missiles could easily stop advancing armies if reducing all of Europe to a radioactive wasteland became desirable strategy...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...said that NATO could do without our theater forces if the Soviets would also cut back. Thus, when one symbol becomes more useful than another, we casually fold our umbrella in a little and somehow security isn't affected. You don't need to know much about logistical "choke points" to challenge the Reagan-Brezhnev fantasy framework of arms competition...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Strategic Objectives | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

...Paul Warnke, an able man who should know better, stated flatly that the proposed improvements in NATO long-range theatre nuclear forces provide no possible military advantage. This statement is easily challengeable. For example, the precision and remarkable accuracy of these systems could make them ideal for striking logistical "choke-points" at the rear of an attacking Soviet army...

Author: By Stephen Walt, | Title: Convocation Against Nuclear War | 11/21/1981 | See Source »

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