Word: towing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frequent Gallantry. The first wave of the Turkish invasion force to taled 8,000 men in three brigades, equipped with TOW missiles, armored personnel carriers and tanks. They were backed by jets that dominated the sky and naval forces that protected them with offshore shelling. Ranged against them were nearly 15,000 Greek Cypriot troops, plus a Greek Cypriot reserve force that came into battle dressed in everything from blue jeans to World War II helmets and armed with anything from shotguns to ancient bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifles. The reserves, like the regulars, fought with verve and frequent gallantry...
...Argentine Senate, now speaking out boldly instead of whispering shyly as she used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Perón's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
...Four days of high rolling, however, proved too much for Haggard, who called off the appointment and closeted himself in his Reno hotel penthouse to sleep. When he arose, he found DeVoss encamped at his doorstep. Before long, Haggard headed for the hotel's casino with DeVoss in tow. "Scribbling furiously," recalls DeVoss, "I followed Merle's wake of hundred-dollar bills from keno lounge to crap table before nesting in front of a twenty-one dealer. Haggard's analysis of country music was quickly supplemented by a few pointers on gambling-which enabled me to gracefully...
...ship could take it in tow by simply feeding it matter: like a hungry pet following its master, the black hole would be tugged along by mutual gravitational attraction as it gulped the material...
...been agitating for professorships in the economics department as a matter of representation, balance, and fairness. Leaving aside the question of the validity of Marxian economics, their complaints are legitimate, for the department is conspicuously overloaded with Keynesians and monetarists. while the details of the conclusions reached by these tow schools may vary, their premises are notably similar...