Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot took the second-half kickoff, and hard-nosed running back Mickey Voltz spear headed a strong offensive drive. But Voltz & Co. only got as far as the Quincy 45, where Hall fumbled the ball into the waiting arms of a swarming Quincy defensive line.
The Kremlin passed over more senior-ranking officers and chose Akhromeyev, Ogarkov's longtime deputy and a former tank commander, as his replacement. Like Ogarkov, the new Chief of Staff represents a younger generation of better-educated officers who, in the words of a Washington analyst, are "not frightened...
The B-1 A was designed in the early 1970s as a successor to the B-52, which is now considered lumbering and vulnerable to sophisticated Soviet radar. Indeed, the chief attribute of the redesigned B-1B is that it can fly low to the ground, making it only one...
Chebrikov: It seems that another one of our operatives, an alert alumnus of that famous school, whose name I cannot divulge, tried to whip up a little more anti-Communist feeling. He wrote a letter to Bok, very cleverly, criticizing the fact that Harvard had on its Faculty an avowed...
The collapse of the Communists raised questions about the continued presence in the Cabinet of the four Communist ministers as well as the future of Party Leader Georges Marchais, who has not spoken publicly about the voting results. Marchais's pro-Soviet line has been under fire by some...