Word: dogfighter
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...European competitor keeps soaring, it is bound to clip more than a few American-made wings. For Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, prestige and big money are on the line, and the jet builders have no intention of giving up their dominance of the skies without a dogfight...
...that client is a policymaking arm of the U.S. Government. "Abe Sofaer is a great New York lawyer," Governor Mario Cuomo told a breakfast group. "If they tell him 'Make it legal, Abe,' he'll make it legal." Sofaer refuses to get caught in a law-vs.-policy dogfight. He cites Lyricist Sammy Cahn's dictum that it is impossible to say "what comes first, the music or the words...
Converting the house's peaceful grassy courtyard into a scene resembling a dogfight in a bakery, six Leverett residents wrangled with one another on a plastic sheet covered with dough. This year Leverett House opted for dough instead of chocolate pudding due to the rising price of pudding, said Alan J. Bauer '87, house committee chairman...
...atrocities. As early as 1981, the CIA accused Libya of being the most prominent sponsor of international terrorism, and Reagan talked ominously about Libyan hit squads sent out to assassinate U.S. officials. That same year, F-14 fighter jets shot down two Soviet-built Libyan fighters after a sudden dogfight over the Gulf of Sidra. Last June, when TWA Flight 847 was hijacked and 39 Americans were held hostage, the Administration saw Gaddafi's shadow and decided that he had to be taught a lesson...
...entire season of duds, however, would have been offset by The Mission. The hour-long tale, directed by Spielberg himself, followed a World War II bomber crew on its "bad luck" 23rd mission. The plane's landing gear is knocked out in a dogfight, and a young gunner finds himself trapped inside a turret in the plane's belly. The scenes inside the aircraft had the claustrophobic intensity of Das Boot; the crew members were credibly scared and human; and the suspense built as relentlessly as in Jaws. Despite a fanciful and unsatisfying climax, the show was a small masterpiece...