Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tania Huber and Sara Fischer set each other up in the second period for the Crimson's only tallies. Huber, who leads the team with 17 goals and 11 assists for 28 points, took a pass from Fischer before breaking down left wing and beating the B.C. netminder from in close to make the score...
That force proved no match for the invaders, who were later identified by State Department experts as members of the left-wing Cherikhaye Fedaye Khalq (People's Sacrifice Guerrillas). Shortly after 10 a.m., the attackers cut loose with machine guns, pistols and automatic rifles from roof tops across the street. As the first volleys of the surprise attack hit the building, Sullivan and Colonel Leland Holland, the defense attache, took up a position at a command post in Sullivan's second-floor office. The Marine guards, clad in flak jackets and under instructions from Sullivan to refrain from...
...order to surrender, were kicked and beaten. Inside the embassy, about 70 staffers and a few other people sought refuge in a corridor outside Sullivan's office while Marines covered their retreat. When the guerrillas burst into the embassy, the group fled to the building's east wing, where the communications equipment was housed. While some of the staffers crowded into the locked communications room, a dozen employees hastily shoved classified papers into burn bags that were thrown into an incinerator. A radio operator used a heavy sledgehammer to pulverize electronic gear and coding machines...
...Dubs reached a midtown intersection last Wednesday morning, on schedule at 8:45 a.m., four armed attackers, one of whom was dressed as a Kabul traffic policeman, stopped his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile at gunpoint and jumped into the car. The abductors, believed to be right-wing Shi'ite Muslims opposed to Afghanistan's pro-Soviet regime, ordered their captive to drive to the Kabul Hotel, located near the Defense Ministry...
Gold fever in the U.S. is so widespread that it is no longer accurate to speak of its victims as if they were right-wing zealots haunted by nightmares of starving marauders. A more typical buyer is New York Suburbanite Phillip Knapp, who is vice president of a paper firm. With a wife, three children and a six-figure income, Knapp seems every bit the successful American who ought to have confidence that the future will be as good to him as the past has been. But says he: "In 1975 I started to worry about where I could...