Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a week earlier the Libyans had managed to reverse a string of Chadian victories by retaking a key oasis town near the border. Angered by the setback at Maaten es Sarra, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi last week ordered a retaliatory air strike on N'Djamena. But as two Soviet-built Tupolev-22 bombers approached the capital, French troops fired a U.S.-made Hawk antiaircraft missile. One of the jets exploded in a green phosphorescent fireball, and the other fled toward Libya. Two other Tupolevs later struck the town of Abeche, some 400 miles to the east, killing two civilians...
...simpler, lighting more rudimentary, and the miked-up sound systems uniformly lousy. The more a show was shaped to fit a particular space and circumstances, the clumsier it looks shoehorned -- or stretched -- into a new configuration each week. But when it comes to performance pizazz, even second-string unknowns compete effectively with first-run counterparts -- and sometimes outdo them...
...black unions in 1979, Ramaphosa collected his law degree and joined the legal staff of the Council of South African Unions, a black labor organization that was trying to form a national black miners' union. Ramaphosa became the mine workers' general secretary the following year and learned a string of hard lessons when he led three strikes that lasted no longer than 48 hours each. Yet the union's membership grew steadily, and its tactics became bolder. Said Johannesburg's Business Day of last month's walkout: "The union demonstrated an impressive and growing ability to organize and control large...
...House, Tip O'Neill takes the last approach, figuratively pulling up a chair at Barry's Corner, his old hangout in Cambridge, Mass., and regaling the reader with a string of let-me-tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed comments have provoked a flurry of attention and virtually guaranteed that it will be a commercial success. But the book is more than just a settling of old scores. It adds up to a stout defense of two now tarnished notions that O'Neill came to epitomize: the New Deal liberal ideal that government...
Almost since the guns of World War II fell silent, the U.S. Army has focused most of its efforts on finding ways to counter the Soviet Union on the potential battlefields of Europe. Increasingly, however, America's real military challenges have been of a less conventional sort. A string of hostage crises in Iran and Lebanon, instability throughout the Persian Gulf, guerrilla wars that threatened El Salvador and other Third World allies, and the emergence of Soviet-aligned regimes in places like Nicaragua and Grenada have hammered home the need for ways to handle some very different military tasks: snatching...