Word: tanked
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...chance. "This team has tremendous character," he said. "That goes a long way." Their character was tested in the game's first minutes, as Ward smoothly quarterbacked his fleet receivers to an early touchdown. But that seemed to get the home team's Irish up. Like a space-age tank, Notre Dame rumbled to three quick, imposing scores. F.S.U., which had humiliated its first nine opponents 205-27 in the first half, found itself inexplicably down 21-7 at intermission...
Several weeks ago, with the Russian parliament in rebellion and the military waffling, the chief threat was civil war. After an almost disastrous delay, Yeltsin eventually did the right thing and confronted the renegade parliament. After some undemocratic tank diplomacy, the key opposition leaders were jailed and Yeltsin began a general crackdown that included press censorship and the stifling of local governments...
...walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a tank...
...reporter gives him a lift. Sitting on the side of the road when they arrive is Gary Pattengill, in some sort of shock. BOOOM! The fire from the hills is devouring the trailer homes one by one, and each time it hits a propane-fuel tank, a tremendous explosion sends flame and shrapnel into the air. "That's incredible," says Pattengill, 53, a recently laid-off sales manager, raising an eyebrow. He too was stopped at the roadblock, and stayed, mesmerized by the destruction. BOOOM! Finally, a piece of shrapnel lands a few yards from Pattengill. "I think...
Weyrich founded NET more than two years ago. The network is the most recent creation of the man who also founded the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington...