Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crack troupe of Army's best men stalled a late, Harvard comeback at West Point Saturday, taking the final two bouts to clinch a 15-12 victory and hand the Crimson fencing team its first loss of the season...
DEFENSE. China's military force is hardly a match for the Soviet Union's 43 divisions and 100,000 crack KGB troops that confront the Chinese along a 4,500-mile frontier. China's air force relies on the aging MiG-21 as its front-line interceptor and on the ancient TU-16 and the Il-28 as its penetration bombers; its nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry...
...took another three-goal deficit in the second period to force the Crimson into its first and only crack at dominance in the contest. Harvard's all-around tentative play early in the period set up some strong Dartmouth pressure and the Green's fourth goal at 9:21 of the second...
...Crack, crack, crack! The chutes snap open, blossoming in the sky like popcorn. They are a far cry from the old rounded canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2% minutes. Then they are upon you, the suspended jumpers emitting war whoops because it went well, they have made a good dive, and maybe because they are high on their own adrenaline and they feel so good. "We're all adrenaline junkies," says a jumper...
...quick and dramatic relief from Japanese imports." In trade, says Eckstein, the Japanese "have done nothing for us." The Japanese, for their part, argue vehemently that they have done much to open up their market and that it is now the fault of American exporters if they cannot crack it. Who is right...