Word: airs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some Air Force hardliners, still smarting from the B-l experience, have insinuated that the J.C.S. chairmanship was the reward Jones got for going along with the White House. To be sure, Carter, like most Presidents, prizes team players. But the main element in Jones' selection was the problem-solving managerial talent that he had demonstrated during his four years as head of the Air Force and prior to that as commander in chief...
...Air Forces in Europe between...
...Minsk generally carries 15 Forger Yak-36 VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) planes and 20 Kamov Ka-25 helicopters. The Forger rises and descends on a vertical column of air blown downward by two jet engines. Western analysts have not yet fully evaluated its functions, but it seems to carry antisubmarine weapons and both air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. The copters appear to be designed primarily to attack submarines, but also have equipment that can guide surface-to-surface missiles launched from the carrier itself. The vessel has four launchers that can fire missiles with a range...
Some weeks ago, during the very particular and graceful lull of an English Sunday afternoon, two American travelers stopped by a pub in the village of Blandford, Dorset. The air was thick with Player's smoke and jollity, the sound of gentle joking, the slide and click of coins across the worn wood of the bar, and the easygoing strains of the new Eagles album...
Harvard moved in front with a freak goal after only one minute and 31 seconds of the first half. Tiger fullback Scott Messel leapt into the air to try and clear a corner kick with his head, only to have the ball deflect off his airborne right leg into the corner of his own goal. The referee credited Harvard's Mike Mogollan with the score...