Word: slug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
This month the New York Times, with a beefed-up business section of its own, is scheduled to launch a national edition. The Times will find its Manhattan rival dug in and ready to slug it out. The Journal has twelve regional printing plants, seven of which can send or receive ready-to-print pages by satellite. About 95% of subscribers get same-day delivery. The fourfold rise in U.S. postal rates during the 1970s convinced the Journal that it should begin delivering its own papers; this faster service reached 16% of subscribers last year and is expected to cover...
...KOVIC was born on the Fourth of July, 1946. When he was twenty-one, a Vietnamese thirty-caliber slug tore through his right shoulder, blasted through his lung and smashed his spinal cord to pieces...
...refused to speculate about whether more than one assailant was involved. Police scoured the area by helicopter and on their hands and knees. They searched nearby trash bins and sewers and interviewed guests but turned up only one additional bit of evidence: the nearly intact first .30-06-cal. slug, which was lying in the crack of a sidewalk near Jordan's room. Said Mayor Moses: "It was not a Saturday-night type of shooting. The gunman was an expert marksman and he knew guns." The mayor described the shooting as "professionally executed," then amended his remarks: " 'Expert...
...agile display of comic irony and sociocultural observation. It takes place on a California patio, that never-ever land. It includes a middle-aged husband whose wife has been made desolate by his supposed philandering. Actually, the poor devil has long been impotent, his only mistress being an omnipresent slug of 100-proof oblivion. The couple's unemployed son lives in a '51 Pontiac in the garage. He objects to a mobile home on the grounds that it would be "too permanent." Their daughter is a nude, neurotic recluse, hidden in the recesses of the house, who only...