Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flir [forward-looking infrared sys tem ] because I can watch for triple-A [anti-aircraft artillery] and other things as my whizzo [weapons system officer] holds the laser on the target all the way in." U.S. Marine Captain Erik Swenson, speaking here, is the pilot of an F/A-18 Hornet (call sign: "Lumpy"), and he could hardly be more different from a Sarajevo shopkeeper. But he and Ferid Durakovic are intimately linked. Starting last Wednesday morning, Captain Swenson-in his first taste of combat-and dozens of other nato pilots began bombing the Serbs in retaliation for the massacre Durakovic...
Being popular isn't the same thing as being known. Or is it? KATO KAELIN, who appears in next month's GQ dressed as Kato, the Green Hornet's sidekick, to embody "The Cheesing of America," is still enjoying his protracted 15 minutes. Particularly, he says, after a recent incident in which 30 girls cornered him and "asked me to sign their breasts." FROM HAUTE...
...they had to do was call up their buddies in the real-estate industry to get their money," Lee said. "The real estate industry has stirred up a hornet's nest. Their greed and selfishness really blinded them to what they were doing...
...projects just keep on coming, as studios ransack America's collective subliterate unconscious for new hits from old shows: American Gladiators (with Cliffhanger's Renny Harlin producing); Bewitched (Penny Marshall); The Brady Bunch; F Troop; Gentle Ben; Gilligan's Island; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; The Green Hornet; Hawaii Five-0; Hogan's Heroes (from writer- producer John Hughes); The Invaders; Lost in Space; My Favorite Martian; The Rifleman; The Saint and many, many more...
...operation started out looking easy and humane. But once again U.S. troops found themselves in a hornet's nest...