Word: await
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more sophisticated fashion to track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still is way ahead in overall dogfight kills...
Yadin believes that the Temple Scroll was considered part of the Bible by Qumran. The parchment reinforces the scholarly conviction that the Qumran community consisted of ascetic, apocalyptically minded Jews who withdrew from the turmoil of Jerusalem to await the end of the world, and whose zeal to purify their faith in some sense foreshadowed that of Jesus and the early Christians...
...troop convoys headed for the sea. As he promised at the Arab sum mit at Khartoum in August, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is calling his sol diers home. Five thousand have already left, and another 5,000 are converging on the Red Sea port of Hodeida to await transport. The remaining 10,000 are pulling out of their defensive posi tions in Yemen's bleak highlands, abandoning the Republican-held capital of San'a and the dusty town of Taiz. By the middle of November, according to Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram, even...
Then the Tigers scored twice and a brawl broke out in the Pennant Grille across from Fenway Park. Two patrol wagons arrived as the crowd retreated to restaurants and store fronts to await the final inning. Then Tiger Dick McAuliffe grounded into a game-ending double play and pandemonium...
...swoop down out of the skies on the enemy's big main-force units wherever they could be found, engage them in battle and then whirl back to the landing pads of the Air Cav "golf course"at An Khe in the Central Highlands to await the next alarm. Brilliantly executed, the assignment helped to turn the tide against the Communists. The Air Cav carried out 53 major leap-and-strike operations in 52 weeks ranging from the la Drang Valley near Cambodia to the coastal plains of the South China Sea, killing 5,000 North Vietnamese and Viet...