Word: weaseled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...allied air base in the gulf area, for example, a specialized group of U.S. Air Force F-4G Wild Weasels continually land with film taken by nose- mounted cameras. Less than 10 minutes after a Weasel touches down, its film is rushed into one of a cluster of van-size steel boxes, bolted together at the edge of a runway, that serve as a photo intelligence center. Specialists wearing white gloves bend over light tables and peer through loupes to examine miles of black-and-white film as it rolls by. Most of the film is a dead gray wash...
...argued that the authors of the plan were not partisan enough. The White House abandoned the traditional Republican hostility to funding ineffective domestic spending programs. The Democratic leadership surrendered the fairness issue in taxation, socking it to Joe Sixpack's beer bill while allowing the wealthy to weasel out of their fair share of sacrifice...
...racially "insensitive." It was blatantly and grossly racist. To consider it potentially humorous to make a mockery of ethnic characteristics is not mere insensitivity; it is a familiar and disgusting element of real racism. Patterson and the rest of the Harvard community deserve something better than the weak and weasel-worded offerings that you have provided...
...shooting war broke out, U.S. electronic-warfare planes such as the Air Force's F-4G "Wild Weasel" and the Navy's EA-6B would black out the radar and guidance systems of Iraqi air-defense missiles. "Command, control and communications are their Achilles' heel," says an Air Force officer. In this kind of combat, "they would have to do everything visually." Meanwhile, Saudi and U.S. AWACS planes would spot Iraqi aircraft as soon as they left their runways and direct F-15s and Navy F-14s to intercept them with Sidewinder and Sparrow missiles...