Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...devastating retaliatory strike. Pursuing that strategy, the U.S. has built a formidable triad of strategic nuclear forces: land-based ICBMs in silos, sea- based missiles aboard submarines, and nuclear bombs carried by airplanes. But over the years, the increased accuracy of Soviet ICBMs has gradually threatened the land-based leg of the triad, which consists of 450 Minuteman IIs, each carrying a single warhead; 500 Minuteman IIIs tipped with three warheads; and 50 more modern MX's, each with ten warheads. The Administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan considered 30 or so ideas for rendering U.S. ICBMs...
...most widespread chemical danger in water is lead, which can cause high blood pressure, arm and leg pains, nausea and vomiting. Lead is especially hazardous to children, since it impairs the development of brain cells. The EPA estimates that at least 42 million Americans are exposed to unacceptably high levels of lead, and the U.S. Public Health Service says that perhaps 9 million children are at least slightly affected...
That is too harsh, although this final leg sometimes displays the enervation of a long haul. When last seen, Talbot was in a severely damaged and leaky old warship. Now the weather turns ornery. Talbot mentions this to his new friend, the ship's first lieutenant Charles Summers, and receives a scary response: "You have seen nothing yet, Edmund. There is something at the back of this wind...
...makes the save of the year with 52 seconds left and the score tied, 3-3, when he leaps up into the air and deflects a Chris Winnes slapshot off his leg...
Marsh's main weapon, senior center Jamie Baker, has been out since December with a leg injury. But sophomore wing Andy Pritchard (26-21--47) and senior goaltender Paul Cohen (2.66 goals-against average, .913 save percentage) have carried a team that's strong at both ends...