Word: towing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST FEARSOME WEAPONS CONFRONTING U.S. MARINES in Somalia are the 480 TOW ANTITANK MISSILES and the 75 81-mm mortars that Washington delivered to the Somali military in the 1980s. To prevent local warlords and brigands from turning the arms against the Americans, the Pentagon has quietly dispatched Special Operations forces to Somalia to track down the weapons and seize them...
Another way to get up Mt. Brokenleg is the rope tow. About this ancient contraption, I have very little to say. Rope burn. Back pain the next...
Weinberger's note, discovered last spring, explicitly describes the Oval Office discussion of the plan to sell 4,000 TOW missiles to Iran in exchange for five American hostages, as well as his and Secretary of State Shultz's declared opposition. Bush has repeatedly denied that he, then Vice President, was aware that Shultz and Weinberger were opposed...
...Pain is getting mighty cold, isn't it? For some inexplicable reason, the delightful outside terrasade attracts polar winds from both arctic zones, and concentrates them into miniature hurricanes. Just as you settle down with sandwich and beverage in tow, a foul wind interrupts your incipient feast. Before there is time to anchor your delicious repaste, the sandwich, dripping with honey mustard, has soared from your table, and is making a quick getaway through the outstretched hands of the homeless--who, after all rely on such fortuities to survive...
...liberal city would tow cars because of street cleaning violations at eight in the morning...