Word: maneuverable
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Behind the brave words lie harsh realities. Duarte's room for maneuver, especially on social reforms, will be constricted by the sorry state of the national economy. Some Salvadorans recall how the Christian Democrats acquiesced to rightist demands during their last turn in power, in 1980, while others remember...
Hovering 1,000 ft. in the air, the first helicopter took gunfire. "It was like gravel raining on a pan," said Johnston. The pilot tried to maneuver away from the barrage, but could not. One bullet destroyed the helicopter radio. Another tore through the floor and exited through the roof...
Covert support of the contras in Honduras is provoking resentment in an unlikely constituency: the U.S. Army. More than 2,500 regular U.S. military personnel are now stationed in Honduras, most of them preparing the groundwork for a new U.S.-Honduran military exercise, known as Granadero I. As a preliminary...
Indeed, the only fatality of the elaborately conceived, but amateurishly executed, maneuver was one of the terrorists. A second was apprehended a few blocks away, and the third arrested outside Jerusalem. All three, reported Israeli authorities, belonged to a pro-Syrian radical faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization known as...
Personal and racial relations are delicately balanced and subtly revealed to young Simons. The important lessons come not from the books in the Doctor's library but from what he calls "the whole alphabet of worldly maneuver." At the Baby Grand he learns how to drink beers with folks...