Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reilly has had to depend on a couple of youngsters to help bolster Army's offensive attack. Freshman center Rob Tobin (9 goals, 15 assists, 24 points) and sophomore wing Rich Sheridan (12-10--22) lead a Cadet offense that has averaged only two goals per each ECAC game...
...leaders for tending to view the entire Middle East region as the scene of U.S. Soviet power struggles and ignoring analyses on a regional level. The reflagging of Kuwaiti tankers last summer, for example, was motivated by an American fear that the Soviets would take the Kuwaitis under their wing if the U.S. did not act first. In addition, a similar fear of growing Soviet influence in the region led to the U.S.'s selling of arms to Iran...
Harvard (7-3-1 overall, 3-1-1 Ivy) notched its first goal of the game at the 2:45 mark on the first of two Christine Burns scores. Center Martina Albright and wing Lydia Smith led the Harvard scoring chart with a goal and two assists apiece...
...with Palestinian unrest. Shimon Peres, the Labor Party leader and Foreign Minister in the national unity government, suggested that the elections scheduled for November be moved up in hopes of producing a government better able to deal with the crisis. Predictably, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, head of the right-wing Likud bloc, rejected the idea, saying it "would weaken our standing in the eyes of the Arabs...
...during the infamous 1937-38 "rape of Nanking." But when the film was previewed in Japan, the scene was gone. "A big misunderstanding," said a spokesman for the Shochiku-Fuji distribution company, which apparently snipped the 40-second sequence from its prints because it feared a backlash from right-wing Japanese. Bertolucci accused Shochiku-Fuji of mutilating his masterpiece, an epic tale of modern China. Company Executive Shinji Serada phoned the Italian director to apologize, and promised to restore the missing clip. But the flap was certain to dismay the Chinese, who have often accused Japan of trying to avoid...