Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landed at Juno Beach with Canada's Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. Their mission was to race 10 miles to Caen's airport on fold-up bicycles. Darling caught three bullets in the abdomen before the Canadians reached their objective...
...beach, there was no standing around. We tried using the fold-up bikes we'd trained on for two years. But the rubble on the roads made the whole thing impractical. After about three miles, we were ordered to stack them up in a heap. We dug slit trenches the first night in a churchyard; Jerry was maybe 1,000 yds. away. When we tried to negotiate with a local farmer to buy some eggs, he was mystified by our Quebec French and finally asked in English, 'What do you want?' He had been a steward on the French liner...
...expecting Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale to be blazingly fast," captain John Roberts said. "We are going to have race at a higher level. They are not going to fold under the same kind of pressure [that our past opponents folded under...
Although the council would not have been able to enforce the resolution had it passed, the councillors say their intent was three-fold: to preserve the integrity of government, to alleviate tensions within the council and--above all--to tell Walsh that he lacks the confidence of four colleagues...
Purists in physics departments cringe these days, as more of the faithful leave the scientific fold. Stories of rocket scientists making a name for themselves at Salmon Brothers and Goldman Sachs abound...