Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...southern West Germany about 75 miles east of Stuttgart, U.S. Army Captain Terry Quinn points cheerfully at a squat, wide-track staff vehicle parked near a rural Bavarian crossroads. "That," he says, "is a tank." Nearby a sergeant fans a deck of cardboard chits with shell totals printed on them. "And this," he says, "is our ammunition...
...Quinn's half a dozen soldiers are playing war games with their car and their cards, part of an annual exercise that once was the spectacular, costly and sometimes dangerous pride of the U.S. armed forces. The maneuvers, part of the "Reforger" exercise by which the Pentagon annually tests its ability to deploy its forces in case of a Soviet attack, no longer produce the vast, make-believe tank battles that previously raged across the fields and the flowerbeds of resentful German farmers...
...mostly being done by computers," says Quinn, a career officer based at Darmstadt. "People weren't too happy about tanks and tracks all over the place. They see East and West getting together, and they wonder why we're doing this...
...once again, the dam burst in the second period. This time, the Crimson scored seven times to bury the Bruins. Young scored the first two goals before Harvey left the fray with a concussion, the result of a run-in with Weisbrod. Ciavaglia then greeted Harvey's replacement, Dan Quinn, with a quick pair of goals Eventually, Weisbrod's power-play goal with seven seconds left in the period gave the Crimson a 9-3 advantage...
Melrose exited college hockey the same way he entered it--with fists flying. In the third period, he stuffed Quinn into the Bruin cage, instigating one melee. He body-slammed a linesman, who pushed him away when he tried to apologize. And on his last collegiate shift, Melrose battled a trio of Bruins before the striped shirts pulled him off the ice for the last time...