Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries "the football," the briefcase containing the launch codes, to the officers who push the buttons, a President must deal with an impersonal and coldly rational chain of command. A comforting irony is that military leaders are not the Strangelovian warriors imagined by many civilians. Those...
...think it's affected the morale of the team," says Cozza. "Certainly it would be better if we didn't have those things in print. But I've told 'em, 'I don't want you looking for other places to put the blame when you're losing...
...probably won't be a classic showdown "I hate to say this," says Scott, saying it anyway, "but we're really not too worried about em...
...just physically beat 'em up," quarterback Greg Gizzi added. "We could've beat them without throwing a pass...
...male passenger out of sheer friendliness. The man got off at her stop and immediately asked her to come to his place for coffee. She declined, but he continued to walk alongside her, down the dimly lit street, taunting: "Whattsa matter? You don't like Wops? Too good for 'em?" As they neared her house, she knew better than to enter it. As the man spit out, "I'll bite your fuckin' tits off, cunt," she turned sharply and walked in the opposite direction for a quarter mile, in the rain and slush, until she felt safely out of range...