Word: back-and-forth
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...wide range of Soviet citizens raised the issue, speaking openly, worriedly and almost compulsively. The first was a young woman who, after a brief back-and-forth about the Olympic boycott, admitted: "We should never have gone into Afghanistan. Never. We will fight there for years. It was a terrible mistake. It will be like Viet Nam." When it was suggested that, tragically, thousands of soldiers will come home in coffins, she wheeled with frustration in her eyes: "What do you mean will? Thousands already have come home in coffins. And it is only the beginning...
...first session was scheduled for two hours but broke up after only 85 min., since the two leaders needed less time than expected to spell out their differing world views. There was also what Powell called "a good deal of back-and-forth." At one point, Brezhnev and Carter engaged in a spirited exchange over which nation is spending more for weapons. The two leaders also expressed sharply opposed views about the world's trouble spots, including who was responsible for the turbulence in the Middle East and southern Africa. Finally, Brezhnev pushed his chair back from the table...
CASTRO'S AMBIVALENCE about emphasizing passion or philosophy mars the entire production--the performance ends up fuzzy, focusing on neither theme. This swinging back-and-forth results in passion when a delicate appreciation of the philosophical base of the play is more appropriate, or staunch underplaying when intensity is required. In one scene, Caesonia, Caligula's mistress (Sonia Martinez), tries to explain to Scipio (Matthew Horseman), a sensitive and innocent friend of the young Roman emperor, why Caligula had his father's tongue torn from his mouth and then slain for no apparent reason. In an attempt to make Scipio...
...Through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. was urging adoption of an American-built MLS in which the electronic funnel is created by two narrow radio beams-one sweeping horizontally, the other vertically. From the varying time intervals between the aircraft's interception of these rapid back-and-forth sweeps, an on-board computer can determine precisely where the plane is in the funnel, how steeply it is descending and how far it is from the center of the runway...
...teams played a scrappy brand of back-and-forth basketball in the first half, with the lead being traded more often than Richie Allen before the Huskies took a 43-42 lead to the locker room...