Word: maneuverers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At 5:10 p.m. Israeli time, the lead fighter penetrated Iraqi airspace. The aircraft continued to change course continuously as they moved in on target, howling through the Sunday twilight at 400 m.p.h. For months the Israelis had studied the route up the Euphrates Valley, convinced that they could negotiate...
Landing a jet on an aircraft carrier at night. That flat description understates the most harrowing exercise in military aviation. Seated at the controls of a plane that may weigh as much as 25 tons, a pilot approaches his carrier from the stern. All he sees to guide him are...
In a seemingly ominous confrontation two nights before GLAD Day, Lowell I. McGee '80, was attacked at PBH while helping clean up after a gay dance. The assailant, John A. Francis '83 was apprehended by University Police, but McGee--in a politically masterful maneuver--agreed not to press charges if...
Some of the modern ferment comes from a retired fighter pilot named John Boyd, a tactical analyst who has lingered at the Pentagon for years studying the theory of war back to China's Sun Zi (Sun Tzu) around 400 B.C. Boyd's four-hour lecture has been...
Obviously a center-right majority elected on that platform would make it impossible for Mitterrand to put through his economic and social reforms. The President-elect has said that if he did not get a leftist majority, he would try to govern with whatever majority did emerge from the elections...