Word: fleeting
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...more often than not at the Fleet Center last night, the Crimson put forth an effort that it—and Coach Mark Mazzoleni—was pleased with...
...Beanpot also means something to hockey fans in Boston, a town with the largest college hockey following in the country. If you want to do something to be noticed, what better place to do it than in a sold-out Fleet Center, in front of some of the best fans and journalists in the sport...
...tourism due to terrorism and leaving its debts unpaid and its ships at the dock. Republican Congressman Gene Taylor of Mississippi came up with a plan to solve this pork-barrel mess: more pork barrel. Taylor wants the U.S. Navy, already strapped for cash trying to keep its dwindling fleet of 320 warships afloat, to spend several hundred million dollars to buy the cruise ships. Taylor got language added to the 2002 defense bill suggesting the Navy finish the vessels and put them out to sea as a morale booster for troops. The clause reads that the sea service should...
...engage (the enemy) in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more than one million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...