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...battle plan, according to a well-documented biography of Reno, Faint the Trumpet Sounds, Custer gave the major three companies to attack the south end of the camp, keeping five companies for himself, which Reno thought Custer would use to support him if he ran into heavy opposition. Reno's force of 112 officers and men had barely forded the Little Big Horn River when at least 500 Indians hit the front line and left flank. No relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high...
...shenanigans practiced by any of these three. Says Republican Representative Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland: "Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time." Still, many legislators do accept practices which are separated only by a line-sometimes strong, sometimes faint-from the actions of the trio under recent scrutiny...
...week's end National Aeronautics and Space Administration Deputy Administrator Robert D. Seamans Jr. told reporters that a second-by-second analysis of tape recordings made during the test indicated that at 6:31:03 p.m. Roger Chaffee first shouted a warning about the fire, that there were faint signs of movement, and that at 6:31:09 Ed White, too, reported the cockpit blaze. Other NASA control center instruments recorded the fact that the cabin pressure (held at a level of 16 lbs. per sq. in.) began to increase, and that three seconds after White's warning...
...Howie used every opportunity in the early period of Ali's reign to speak condescendingly and broadly intimate that every win was worthless or a fluke. Now he devotes his words to each challenger's courage and gameness. When Cosell started praising Terrell to Ali's face, we had faint hopes that the champ would make good his pre-fight threat that he would turn on the sportscaster next...
...even less than a foot thick. Thus every 14 years or so, when the earth passes through Saturn's equatorial plane and astronomers can get an edge-on view of the rings, their glow practically disappears. In place of their familiar, disklike shape, the rings appear as a faint, straight line, much like the side view of a phonograph record held flat at eye level...