Word: maneuverers
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This ditch was particularly useful. A heady runner (as heady as 12-year-old runners get) could pick his course over the ditch, and if he was very heady, maneuver his assailants into it. It was an effective ploy. And a devastatingly useful one.
Lee (Bruce Lee) is the invincible master of Oriental martial arts. "What's your style?" inquires an admirer. After a moment of reflection, Lee says: "You can call it the art of fighting without fighting." That seems a clever enough description, if hardly adequate for the bone-crushing yet...
To censure both Perón's political ambitions and his affair with Evita, the officers finally demanded and got his resignation from the government in October 1945. The maneuver backfired. The unions, abetted by army officers still friendly to Perón, called a general strike and staged...
Every year, some fantasist in the Marine Corps dreams up a scenario like this for the start of training maneuvers at Twentynine Palms, the 932-square-mile Marine base in the Mojave Desert. This year things are a little different. The war in Viet Nam is over, and the Marines...
Then there was Lee, a copywriter who flirted with her boss and stole his job by telling everyone else how she did all his work. The author pays lip service to women's fight for equal pay and equal opportunities for advancement, but Lee is his true heroine. She...