Word: zone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pace for the early play. Penn’s offensive momentum continued into the second half. Harvard was first on the board with an early goal from Bancroft, but the Quakers responded with four quick scores to pull ahead 12-6 with 16:23 remaining. A suffocating zone trap caused trouble for the Crimson offense as it tried to mount a comeback. “The tough zone trap made it difficult for us to get balls through the thirties,” Curtis said. Harvard rallied with three goals in the final three minutes, but time...
...perhaps the most remarkable change of all is in how Baghdadis view the U.S. military presence. A year ago, Hammadi was in a minority: most Iraqis living outside the Green Zone saw the Americans as the main cause of their country's problems. Now, says Ali al-Dabbagh, spokesman for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, all the credit for the decline in violence is going to the U.S. military: "People think the Americans are like Superman, who can do anything...
...some romance. As if this point might not come across otherwise, the campaign changed the pre-event soundtrack Thursday before the speech at Cecil Field Naval Air Station. Instead of the McCain road show's usual songs like U2's "City of Blinding Lights," the speakers played "Danger Zone," the Kenny Loggins pop song made famous in the film Top Gun, a story of another hot-dog naval aviator who overcame immaturity and adversity to serve his country with honor...
...burden sharing." Those tensions remain, but a commitment by France to send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal ... It's not just that the French are sending more...
...transformed from a war-ravaged country to one of the most modern, progressive and democratic countries in the world," he said. "Unfortunately, in a modern and vibrant Republic of Korea, the U.S. still rotates service members on one-year, unaccompanied assignments as though this remained an active combat zone...