Word: screws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other hand, Kalb said Israel is often too quick to blame its problems on the press, which "more often than not mirrors what is going on, does not concoct what is going on...there is no small group sitting in New York determining, 'how do we screw Israel tonight...
...Artie is forced to find friends elsewhere. Enter Angela, a brilliant, British beauty who is a classmate of his. "Of the twelve men who this stuffy room fill,/Two I'd like to screw, three I'd like to kill," she tells him in the note that serves as the overture to the relationship. Unfortunately, the line is the best thing about the affairs, if not the novel. The rest of the novel is primarily occupied with the two's inability to cope with themselves and each other...
...rivalry resumes next year and will continue for at least the next three years. Finally, the Cornell band's "Screw B.U." cheer will have some meaning...
...Seawolf down. The low, streamlined sail -- conning tower to landlubbers -- will be hardened to absorb the shock of breaking through the ice. Retractable bow planes will permit the Seawolf to navigate under the Arctic, the huge (5.4 million sq. mi.) new battleground of underwater war. The multiblade, controllable-pitch screw propeller will be encased in a meticulously designed shroud to reduce noise and allow the boat to sneak up on its prey...
Winning, whether it's in poker and craps or stocks and bonds, is simply a matter of coming out ahead of the other guy. Not exactly screwing him over, but, well, luring him into a situation he just can't win. And letting him screw himself...