Word: aerials
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. COLONEL JOHN R. BOYD, 70, military theorist; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Air Force pilot's discovery that a plane's agility, not its speed, was a key factor in aerial combat shaped the quick-response design...
Against both teams, Harvard suffered through two straight aerial bombardments from the perimeter which ceased only when the opposition spotted the occasional player on the blocks for an uncontested layup...
Forget the high-scoring aerial assaults that comprise most major college football games these days. Today's contest promises to be won in the trenches...
...heady promise of peace had already been submerged by the cold war: the specter of Soviet subversion, real and imagined, at home; the threat of nuclear holocaust ominous enough to send schoolchildren diving under their desks at a teacher's practice command. (I remember studying an aerial photo of New York City, on which concentric circles described the effects of an H-bomb blast over the Empire State Building, and feeling a sense of doom that I lived four blocks inside the zone of vaporization...
...violation of international law and were fully planned and purposefully carried out. Protocol in a situation in which a country feels that its sovereignty is being violated by incoming aircraft is to escort the aircraft out of its territorial zone, or, upon refusal, to make it land. However, the aerial attack was unannounced and outside Cuba's twelve mile territorial zone...