Word: tow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...troops to arrive were ill-equipped and vastly outnumbered by the Iraqi tank army poised in occupied Kuwait. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division were told to expect to go directly into combat, though they carried nothing more effective against tanks than puny Dragon rockets and risky-to-use TOW missiles...
FRAMES. Whether carrying Greg LeMond in a Tour de France alpine climb or a suburban parent with a child in tow, bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded...
...Hello, boys," cries Ursula Schubert, 39, waving to a pair of green- uniformed border guards in Posseck, East Germany. Without bothering to show a passport or other identification, Schubert, with two of her children in tow, strolls past the smiling guards and across a blacktop that covers part of what was once the "death zone" between the two Germanys. "I'm off to pick up the newspapers," she explains, gesturing toward the West German border post 200 yards away...
...McCrary, with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...