Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Service (SAS) commandos and black troops from the elite Selous Scouts slipped into Zambia, apparently by helicopter. The raiders attacked a military post near the border, commandeered several camouflaged Land Rovers and set out for Lusaka, 62 miles away. At about 3 a.m. they arrived in Woodlands, a section of Lusaka where Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, several foreign diplomats and Nkomo maintain their homes. The Rhodesians killed Nkomo's drowsy bodyguards with a burst of machine-gun fire, scaled the 8-ft. fence surrounding his one-story stucco house and blew it up with explosives. Although Zambia...
...Food & Drink" supplement ran to 48 glossy pages, bubbling with four-color national liquor ads and articles on such pressing concerns as "Fighting the Gourmet Blues" and "A Consumer Guide to Cognac." An insert in the Sunday New York Times? A section in Gourmet magazine? No, just a little light reading from that old, radical, worker-owned collective in Boston, the Real Paper...
Junior Charlie Altekruse, who anchors The Engine Room, the middle section of the varsity boat that guns the oarsmen, adds, "I expect they'll be hanging in there. They always row well against us." But never well enough...
...begins a crucial section of leading Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes' latest novel, The Hydra Head. Billed as the first Third World spy thriller," The Hydra Head is about the loss of identity of Felix Maldonado, a minor bureaucrat in the Mexican government. In a Kafka-esque world in which he has no autonomy, Maldonado becomes an unwilling assassin in an international spy network competing over Mexico's newly discovered oil supply...
...highlight of the afternoon came in the 1500-meter race. The spectators, who, if gathered collectively, would barely have occupied Row J of Section 32, reached their emotional peak as Crimson thinclads Thad McNulty and Adam Dixon battled to the tape for the top spot. McNulty held off Dixon's charge by one-tenth of a second...