Word: froze
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time and waste were sore subjects at the stereophonic boxing hall, where a confusing two-ring setup with buzzers and bells froze all four fighters at times. Anthony Hembrick, Kelcie Banks and Byun Jong-Il represented independent melodramas that seemed connected. In a recurring Olympic heartbreak, the Detroiter Hembrick was left at the bus stop by miscalculating coaches. "My dream went down so fast," he said after his disqualification. "You live it every day. You sleep it. You eat it. You train it. I lost my chance to prove I was the best in the world. It will never come...
...several U.S. companies, including Texaco and Eastern Air Lines, paid nearly $3 million in taxes and fees to Panama's cash- starved treasury. The firms said the payments were part of the normal course of business. The money temporarily relieved a financial squeeze that had grown severe since Washington froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in the U.S last month. To prevent companies from easing Noriega's fiscal woes any further, the Administration belatedly asked U.S. firms to put future payments into an escrow account...
...head of the 16,000-member Panama Defense Forces; the general simply turned around and had the National Assembly dump Delvalle, replacing him with Education Minister Manuel Solis Palma. Now Noriega faces a stiffer test: a rapidly worsening cash crunch that began two weeks ago, when the U.S. froze some $50 million in Panamanian funds in U.S. banks...
Troops were flabby, commanders aging and equipment faulty. In the sub-zero temperatures, automatic rifles jammed, canteens burst, blood plasma froze ! solid. The enemy attacked in overwhelming numbers, blowing horns and letting out blood-curdling whoops. Such was the situation faced by U.S. infantrymen in the early days of the Korean War. No wonder Military Historian Clay Blair, in this meticulously documented account, describes their initial performance as miserable...
...real decisions were made by back-room coalitions assembled at the convention. John Kennedy, for example, entered the West Virginia primary to prove he could win in an ardently Protestant state, then made his peace with the big-city bosses like Chicago's Richard Daley. Such an arrangement often froze out fresh faces and neglected dissenting minorities in the party. But it vetted candidates with a hard eye for their chances in the general election, and it imposed a rough kind of party unity behind the man lucky enough to make it to the White House...