Word: hulks
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...There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. 'WHY ARE YOU HERE?' HE SHOUTED AT THE SILENT STEEL HULK. 'YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE MISERY. My city is in chaos because of you.' The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted...
...HULKING FORCE The Incredible Hulk in the '70s TV series, Lou Ferrigno, was sworn in as a reserve sheriff's deputy last week in Los Angeles County. The uniform, unlike the green paint, was optional...
...allowed them more breaks.” Harvard skaters began intercepting the Big Green’s forced passes, and as time ticked away, the Crimson was able to force Dartmouth into foot races—perfect for the Harvard squad that boasts speed over size and hustle over hulk. The Crimson scored twice more for the 6-2 win, opening up for a 13-shot third period after totaling nine in the first two frames combined. Meanwhile, Daigneau’s 20 saves earned him his first win in nearly two years. “Dartmouth is a good...
...charred doors obscenely ajar and its windows darkened by soot, the burned-out hulk of a Boeing 737 was all that remained of EgyptAir Flight 648, once bound from Athens to Cairo with 98 passengers and crewmen aboard. As investigators milled about on the tarmac of the airport at Valletta, Malta's capital, police and rescuers sifted through the fuselage for victims, their possessions and any clue that might help explain what had happened aboard the ill-fated craft. Occasionally a stretcher shrouded in plastic would emerge, a macabre reminder that the jetliner had become a tomb for 57 travelers...
...could boast of a bloodless triumph in October, when U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters accosted an Egyptian Boeing 737 (by coincidence, the same one that ended up as a charred hulk in Malta) and forced it to land in Sicily. There it disgorged four young Palestinians who had hijacked the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro and, before giving up, killed Leon Klinghoffer, 69, a semi-invalid U.S. citizen. An Italian court has already convicted the four men of illegal weapons possession; in the spring they are due to go on trial for piracy and murder...