Word: hunker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sand. Tanks are hull deep in the ground and bolstered with sandbags. Artillery pieces are deployed at the apex of each ! triangle, pre-aimed at "killing zones" created by flaming trenches and minefields. Defensive deployments like these are immobile; the officers learned in their war with Iran to hunker down, absorb attacks and fire back with artillery, often loaded with chemical shells...
...advisers have considered several scenarios for the way the crisis may play out and are refining their responses to each contingency. The most crucial factor is time. If, for example, the embargo takes many months to exert serious pressure on Saddam, says a White House official, "Iraq could simply hunker down and wait us out." A protracted stalemate could cause U.S. allies to tire of the mission or permit friction between American troops and the Saudi population to fester. In the U.S., public impatience with the cost of the buildup could lead to demands for a withdrawal...
...Edward Albee), is for his play The Piano Lesson, which after extensive regional tryouts is opening on Broadway this week. Outwardly, it has much in common with Fences, which won Wilson the Pulitzer in 1987: it portrays a conflict among members of a black family over whether to hunker down under white racism or risk ambition and disappointment. But unlike Fences, a kitchen-sink drama firmly grounded in reality, Piano Lesson seems haunted by specters of the brutal past -- as haunted as the U.S. still is by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. Director Lloyd Richards and a splendid...
Primordial dating: Dates between unicellular organisms had to have the perfect chemistry. A macho amoeba would hunker up to a smaller microbacterium, ooze its way around it and ultimately attempt to swallow it whole. This style of dating, known as phagocytosis, made a brief resurgence during the late 1970s...