Word: snipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name for himself at the Miami Herald, a Knight (now Knight-Ridder) paper, where he rose from reporter to assistant managing editor in four years, and later at Knight's Detroit Free Press. Neuharth joined Gannett in 1963 and was president by 1970, leading some colleagues to snipe that his rise came a little too fast. "When Al wears a sharkskin suit," a friend once observed, "it's hard to tell where the shark stops and he begins...
Meanwhile, the Soviets continue to step up their eight-week-old occupation of Afghanistan. Some Washington analysts estimate that the Soviet force, about 80,000 troops, has suffered 2,500 killed and wounded since the takeover. In the population centers, Afghan insurgents snipe and toss rocks at the Soviets...