Word: choppered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dobson, 1-2, had a one-hitter through the first seven innings, allowing only Dwight Evans's infield chopper in the third, before yielding two hits in the eighth and three more in the ninth, including Bob Heise's run-scoring double...
...storage place for battle-worn Air Force squadrons; since 1965 it has accommodated surplus Army and Navy aircraft as well. By now the inventory ranges from workhorse World War II C-47s to sleek F-111 fighters, from two-seater orange "bug smashers" on which the Army trained its chopper pilots for Viet Nam to dozens of "Super Jolly Green Giant" helicopters that flew Viet Nam troop-carrying and rescue missions. Some are there because they are not needed now, and others because they will never be needed again...
Iran's army boasts about 3,000 armored vehicles and has more than 1,000 helicopters, including the American-made SeaCobra attack chopper, which even the U.S. Army does not have. What is probably the world's biggest helicopter-training facility has been constructed at Isfahan in central Iran. It is staffed by U.S. experts who, with their families, form a colony of 5,000. The Shah's navy includes nearly 40 destroyers, frigates and Hovercraft?some armed with missiles. Iran is now so important a customer for American arms that the head of the U.S. military mission in Tehran...
...doorways, alleyways and cheap hotel rooms within the l-sq.-mi. Skid Row area, their throats slit deeply from ear to ear-and the killer had always struck on Wednesdays or weekends. Los Angeles police call him the Slasher; some vagrants of the neighborhood have dubbed him the Head Chopper...
Yankee designated hitter Roy White then hit a high chopper between third base and the pitcher's mound. By the time the ball came down, however, White was safe at first and Alomar was standing on third. Centerfielder Maddox followed and hit the very first pitch on the ground through the right side for a base...