Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thatcher told the Commons, would play into Argentine hands. "It would be too easy to say 'no military activities during negotiations,' " she said in reply to a question from Opposition Leader Foot. "We should then be hamstrung. The people on the islands would still be under the heel of the invader, while Argentina increased its activities on the mainland, with supplies and reserves, to attack us at their will...
Britain's aerial weakness over the Falklands is the task force's Achilles' heel. Rear Admiral Woodward is extremely limited in the number of aircraft he can send aloft for combat patrols and raids on the islands while continuing to protect his fleet. That weakness, more than any other factor, might hamper a British invasion of the islands. To help beef up the British air effort further, the government late last week dispatched long-range Nimrod reconnaissance planes to the South Atlantic. Nimrods, the British version of the AWACS, can give British ships warning of enemy aircraft...
Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
Beat him he did, as well as the other hurdlers. The hobbled hurdler just grabbed the lead and held on to win by well over a second. "My heel and groin were a bit sore, but when you really get into a race you can forget about the soreness," Ezeji-Okoye said...
None of the Crimson catapulters have ever seriously injured themselves though Berle once found himself stuck on the bar, with one leg on one side and his second leg on the other, and Randall earlier this season hurt his heel when his foot missed the landing...