Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Horse) Cavalry Regiment, which is charged with border surveillance in the central sector at Fulda. "But we are forbidden to interfere until someone actually gets across the line. And we must make sure that we don't violate that line on patrol, not with a single footprint, tire track or rotor blade." Crow assigns daily helicopter patrols to fly "the trace," as the border is known, always with specially trained pilots. Ground patrols operate within a few feet of the frontier, occasionally augmented by new M-60A3 tanks, says Crow, "to remind the other side that we have...
...Alevizos didn't tire too often this season--he amassed 32 strikeouts and only 14 walks in 41 innings. He retains his customary good control, and now supplements his specialty--a good, moving fastball--with more off- speed stuff...
...NAVY. It's more than a job, it's a far-fetched salvage operation. When ensigns tire of defending our shores or learning exciting technical skills that will help them land rewarding civilian jobs, they have an option. "I want to go down in a Jules Verne-submarine," they can demand, and before long they'll be on location, somewhere in the Atlantic, driving around bathyscapes in search of the ship "even God couldn't sink." Some of the submarines "implode" (burst apart at the seams to the detriment of their crews), but others survive to pump the hull...
...usual in such rioting, blacks probably suffered the most and will surely be the most affected. A crudely lettered sign outside the Ability Tire Co. read BLACK-OWNED AND OPERATED. But the store was ransacked, and James Price, who worked there, was puzzled. "I was under the impression that this was a rebellion against the white man," he said. "So why did they break in here...
...from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town cops not prepared by experience or temperament for a weekend like this--try to arrest one young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles the men, and through a narrow gap between a parked cars a swarthy man dashes. He leaps on the back of one cop and wrestles him to the ground. When his partner comes to the policeman's aid, he too is jumped...