Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiger because they were bad. He had 47 fights and knocked out 42 men. He took the world title by half killing Joe Frazier in 1973 and then lost it the next year in Zaire to Muhammad Ali, who could not have been brought down that night by a tank. "I be alright when the swelling goes down," Foreman wrote in his journal. Then he took his rage to Toronto, where he whipped five fighters in one evening. In 1976 he savaged Joe Frazier again, all but beating his own chest and roaring over the body. Until the night...
...with some logic, that he is not a private citizen. "I am a public official," he says. "I am concerned. I even flew the B-1 bomber years ago, to decide whether that was something I ought to vote for or not, and I've driven the M-1 tank for the same reason." * Despite the flak about Garn's flight, 69% of those polled in a recent Salt Lake City newspaper survey supported the mission. Such popularity must please Garn, who faces the down-to-earth task of running for re-election next year...
...David Dominique and Bobby Thompson and Star Center John ("Hot Rod") Williams into the deal. Tulane beat Southern Mississippi by a single point. Two Saturdays later the players allegedly conspired to fix the Virginia Tech game, but the plan apparently misfired. Four days after that, they went into the tank again. Tulane, which finished the season with a mediocre 15-13 record, lost to Memphis State by eleven points, more than the four-point margin the betting line had predicted...
While Schatz raised himself through the Mercedes' sunroof to keep a weather eye, Nicholson walked toward a Soviet tank shed, intending to take photographs through a window. At 3:50 p.m., according to Schatz, a Soviet sentry suddenly appeared from a wooded patch about 100 yards from the men. "Watch out!" shouted Schatz. "Come back!" Without warning, American officials charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess...
...enviable positions in corporate America. As chairman of St. Louis-based General Dynamics, he presides over the top U.S. defense contractor and No. 1 beneficiary of the Reagan military buildup. Megabuck contracts to build weapons such as the Trident nuclear-missile submarine, F-16 fighter plane and M-1 tank helped General Dynamics reap revenues last year of $7.8 billion and profits of $382 million, up 33% from...