Word: cobra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the antibacterial effect of the mold from which penicillin is made. He is a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling mind, which, when it moves, moves with the thrust of a cobra. Until time's solvent has dissolved the human slag, it will be hard to say who the great men of the 20th Century are. But Dr. Alexander Fleming is almost certainly one of them...
...impacting on our sand bags," Sergeant Donald Williams, 28, later recalled. Whenever they saw a muzzle flash or some other indication of where the large rounds were coming from, the Marines retaliated with their rifles and machine guns, and finally resorted to their 155-mm cannons and missile-armed Cobra helicopters. At about 9:45 a.m., the first of two 82-mm mortar shells came cascading into the command tent where Staff Sergeant Alexander M. Ortega, 25, was getting batteries for radios. Just outside the tent, Second Lieut. Donald G. Losey Jr., 28, was running from one bunker to another...
...second only to Disney. Here, Jones has abandoned Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner for Rikki-tikki-tavi and The White Seal (Ideals; $4.95 each). Part of the success of these slim volumes lies in Jones' choice of collaborator: a spellbinder named Rudyard Kipling, who spins haunting yarns of a cobra-slaying mongoose and an arctic mammal growing from naive pup to leader of the pack. But most of the credit must go to the illustrator-magician who makes 90-year-old stories as immediate as the dreams of youth...
...huge "Operation Florida," unveiled last January by the Reagan Administration, has attacked smuggling rings operating along the South Florida coast with a small army of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), FBI and U.S. Customs agents, backed by E-3A Sentry planes and Army Cobra helicopter gunships. While the traditional routes through the Florida Keys and Miami have not been totally abandoned by smugglers, the operation has clearly thrown a scare into the drug underworld. Last week President Reagan vividly reaffirmed White House support for the campaign with a cheerleading visit to South Florida. He reviewed an impressive array of confiscated drugs...
...outside and crumbling on the inside from psychic wounds too deep ever to heal, comes to stand for America. But the record is not without its characteristic humor. Springsteen's writing has seldom been as fleet ("Early north Jersey industrial skyline I'm a all/ set cobra jet creepin' through the nighttime"), and he is the only writer around who can get a good, funny love song out of a date where the lovers eat fried chicken from Bob's Big Boy and wipe their fingers on a Texaco road...