Word: heel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many men in their middle years could identify with how this 44-year-old felt before dragging himself off to work. A pounding headache, an aching back, sharp pains in his heel, all added up to the poignant self-diagnosis: "I feel old today...
Annette Prophet [reassuring the actors]: "No one's 'getting the boot.' Why, I'd feel like a heel! Our people are the sole of the Stu-Stu Studio. That's what separates us from our arch-rivals...
Given the stubbornly peaceful nature of the Balts' defiance, the next move is up to Moscow. The present face-off is untenable for President Mikhail Gorbachev, since it leaves him open to attack from old-line communists for not bringing the rebels to heel and from reformers for using force to halt nonviolent political activity. In addition, other potential defectors from the Union might begin to wonder whether Gorbachev's government lacks the will to carry through with military repression...
...America skipper Jim Bowers once again sailed to the top of his fleet, holding on to first place in the A-division for most of the regatta. However, the B-division support that had helped carry Harvard all year proved to be Harvard's Achilles heel in the weekend's races. Skipper John Dickson and crews Jen Drohan and Alex Barker could not keep pace with their competition, sinking Harvard into seventh...
...shooting war broke out, U.S. electronic-warfare planes such as the Air Force's F-4G "Wild Weasel" and the Navy's EA-6B would black out the radar and guidance systems of Iraqi air-defense missiles. "Command, control and communications are their Achilles' heel," says an Air Force officer. In this kind of combat, "they would have to do everything visually." Meanwhile, Saudi and U.S. AWACS planes would spot Iraqi aircraft as soon as they left their runways and direct F-15s and Navy F-14s to intercept them with Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles...