Word: northeasterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hogan's heroes will embark on their battles in ten days when they leave for Florida to play 11 games in eight days. Most of the teams which they will be playing are also from the Northeast, so this will give them ample opportunity to guage their progress...
...cases of products, hoping to interest Wal-Mart buyers in their toothpaste, panty hose, toasters and hundreds of other products. Wal-Mart buyers are notoriously tough bargainers, so sales representatives prepare their pitches carefully. Wal-Mart has plenty of room to grow -- shoppers in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, have yet to see one store. The chain got started in 1962 much the way Sears did decades earlier, by targeting far-flung small towns and underserved rural areas. Stocking everything from cosmetics and record albums to shirts and lawn furniture, Wal-Mart developed a loyal core of customers devoted...
...radio so he can quickly alert his family of government warnings. Others take a stoic view. "I'm not frightened anymore. Once I get the mask on, I spend the rest of the time in our sealed room playing Nintendo," says Yoni Radzinski, 10, of Herzliya, a town just northeast of Tel Aviv. "By and large, Israeli kids are coping very well," says psychologist Robert Asch of the Ministry of Education. He predicts that tensions and boredom, a growing problem, will ease still further once children begin returning to school. But a residue of fear and bad dreams is likely...
...Iraqi tanks and troops smashed into Saudi Arabia's northeast corner early yesterday and were beaten back in "hellacious" fighting by allied forces. Twelve U.S. Marines were reported killed in the heaviest combat of the two-week-old war. Allied losses were described as light, Iraqi casualties as heavy...
...missiles glistened beneath its wings. Not far away, in the Persian Gulf, sailors on the battleship Wisconsin ran through training drills with their 32 Tomahawk cruise missiles, each capable of hitting targets 700 miles away with a 1,000-lb. conventional warhead. At a desolate desert site in northeast Saudi Arabia, tanks of the U.S. 1st Marine Division blazed away in live-fire exercises. In the last nerve-racking hours before "K-day" -- the U.N.'s Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq to get out of Kuwait -- U.S. troops were understandably edgy. But they had little doubt that they were capable...