Word: yds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GATOR BOMBS. A version of cluster bombs, they explode in midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...82nd Airborne Division, whose job is to watch and listen and assemble information on Iraqi troop movements. Fires are outlawed for heating or cooking; hot coffee comes from tiny butane heaters hidden in cardboard boxes. Nights are so quiet that a cough can be heard from 400 yds., and the land is so barren that a single twisted piece of brush becomes a landmark known as the Tree. "It's easy to get lost out here. There are no terrain features," says Captain Scott Barrington, 29, of Chester, Va. "It's like the K mart parking...
Despite initial fears, the attackers turned out to be not Iraqi-sponsored terrorists but an older British adversary: the Irish Republican Army. The would-be assassins had parked a van 200 yds. from the Prime Minister's offices, then used a delayed-timing device to launch three mortar shells from the vehicle while they escaped. One landed in a garden at the back of Major's official residence; two more fell behind the Foreign Office. A total of three people were injured...
...times. Montana is the acknowledged master of the two-minute drill to race the clock to the end zone. In the Nov. 4 game against the Green Bay Packers, with only 38 sec. remaining in the first half and his team down 10-0, Montana took the 49ers 59 yds. in 27 sec. to jump-start a 24-20 victory...
...numbers of touchdowns and interceptions). Simms presides over a varied offense that sets up his passing game with ball control on the ground. Defenders face bruising off-tackle smashes by 12-year veteran running back Ottis Anderson (who seeks to become the first N.F.L. player to gain 1,000 yds. in each of three decades) and sweeps and quick openers by jackrabbit Dave Meggett, who can also turn short passes into scampering long gainers. This year Simms has taken fewer chances throwing into defensive coverage; at one point, he had fired 150 passes without an interception...