Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing David against the Terriers' 6-ft. 4-in Goliath, Sands Grabbed a convincing 6-3, 6-3 victory and confirmed his reputation as one of the top players in the Last Sandy played a crafty game, neutralizing Green's thundering serves and booming overhead smashes with well placed passing drop shots...
Although the city health officials found "no salmonella food poisoning involved," they did find sanitary problems, including "utensils spotted and encrusted," "stained" coffee cups, "spotted and encrusted" pans, and "dusty" overhead light fixtures...
...similar to Viet Nam's," he says. "One afternoon, another reporter, also a Saigon press veteran, and I were sitting on a porch in northern Morazán province, looking out over a garden filled with tropical flowers. Just then a U.S.-made 'Huey' helicopter flapped overhead. We looked at each other, startled. Both of us had flashed back ten years to Viet Nam." Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter, on his third extended reporting trip to El Salvador last week, also compares his experiences with Viet Nam. "In some ways," he says, "the risks here are greater...
...ignores. He has become an attractive campaigner with a winning smile and a promise to step up the war against the guerrillas. Atone recent rally, the members of the audience put their hands over their hearts while a tape played the party's anthem, a light plane soared overhead dropping party leaflets, and, just as the song ended, D'Aubuisson drove up in a bulletproof yellow Wagoneer. Addressing the crowd, he declared: "The guerrillas are destroying us with their guns...
Police with submachine guns ringed Verona's 12th century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe...