Word: three-year-old
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...surprise move last week, a segment of the Administration made the American role public by leaking details to the New York Times. Unnamed Administration officials disclosed that President Reagan, hoping to turn the screws on Moscow for its three-year-old effort to control Afghanistan, had ordered an increase in the quantity and quality of arms for the insurgents fighting the 105,000-man Soviet force. In December, the officials said, the Central Intelligence Agency began providing the rebels with bazookas, mortars, mines and recoilless rifles. Since then the Soviets have stepped up their military activity. The result has been...
...Churchill Downs last week and won the Kentucky Derby, that was the finish line of the race, but the opening line of the story, the continuing line of a dream. In the weeks before the 109th Derby, when seemingly no two prep races could settle on one three-year-old standout, Sunny's Halo and the rest of his generation were belittled as mediocre. Now he and Desert Wine, who gamely finished second, and maybe even Marfa, who politely came in fifth, will have something to say about that...
...people not taking it turned out to be our biggest source of headaches," Hollis Professor of Mathematics Andrew H. Gleason said of the three-year-old program. He added the lack of computer capacity forced officials to spread the testing out over several dates, and had increased students' temptation the requirement...
...came-in record torrents. The Mount Wilson Observatory, just east of Los Angeles, recorded six inches in twelve hours; in parts of Orange County to the south, one-half inch fell in only eight minutes. The downpours weakened dams, washed out roads, and unleashed murderous mud slides. Three-year-old John Price was crushed to death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep lake when floodwaters overflowed...
...assume duties as military attaché in Uruguay. Ochoa refused. He declared his province a "free territory," and phoned a San Salvador radio station to demand that Garcia resign as head of the armed forces because he had shown himself incompetent in handling the country's three-year-old civil...