Word: glide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...takes a moment to steady herself, and the music comes up. She and the others glide gracefully into the spotlight, arms extended, costumes dazzling. Step, kick; step, kick. It's the glitzy routine you would expect from any professional nightclub act. But this show is something special: its cast is made up entirely of military personnel and their spouses...
...most visible symbol of the U.S.'s technological edge -- those pinpoint strikes on Iraqi targets -- actually represents some fairly straightforward bombing. The key technology is a simple laser detector on the nose of a glide bomb that is electronically linked to adjustable fins in the bomb's tail. All the pilot has to do is point a pencil-thin laser beam at his target and push a button. A stabilizing computer keeps the beam locked in place, freeing the pilot to pitch and roll as necessary to evade enemy fire while the bomb rides along the beam's reflection, flying...
While boisterous crowds lined the nearby banks of the Charles last weekend to watch crew shells glide by, the Harvard coed sailing team was busy down river...
...Mathers, not at all a typical resident of the Big Open region, took it all in, said little, bought more land, increased his commercial herd to 3,000 and granted hunting rights on his holdings. Easterners in big mobile homes arrive each year and stalk elk and deer that glide over the hilltops like sandy clouds. The hunters get state approval for a few days, bag a trophy, then rumble back home feeling as if they have been with Lewis and Clark...
...clear enough, he verbally lacerated his opposite number, who for years concealed his service as an officer in a German army unit linked to Nazi atrocities in the Balkans during World War II. Choosing the fear of history as his theme, Havel called "the expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite one's own biography" one of "the traditional Central European delusions." More pointedly, Havel declared, "Whoever fears to look his own past in the face must necessarily fear what is to come. Lies cannot save us from lies." Asked afterward whether Havel might have...