Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power. Nixon's men insist that there will be no Sherman Adams, Harry Hopkins, McGeorge Bundy or Bill Moyers standing between Nixon and his statutory policymakers in the Cabinet. The White House staff, they add, will concern itself far more with running the headquarters than fighting the main governmental battles...
Snap of the Fingers. Black-bereted naval infantrymen, the Soviet version of Marines, stroll the streets of Damascus. Intelligence trawlers refuel at what has become the Soviets' main Mediterranean port of call, Alexandria. Soviet patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...feel my main reason for being here at Yale is to help Bri," Quirm continued, tying the laces of Dowling's white buck shoes. "He's so busy with his football that he has very little time to do the little things, like laying his clothes out before he goes to bed so he can put them on quickly in the morning. This is where I come...
...reason they want your thoughts to be controlled is that if something goes wrong with your main parachute, you have to recognize the difficulty as being something different from the normal (never having seen the normal, however). After you have reached the decision that something is wrong, you must decide on the appropriate course of action and enact it. It--presumably, using your reserve parachute--then takes a little time to take effect...
Lowell, however, rolled up the highest score of the season as it routinely tore apart Adams 68-19. Vaho Rebassoo and George Olive were the main point-producers...