Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screen of protective smaller ships in order to force the flattop to change course while launching or landing aircraft and thus maybe dump a few planes into the sea. In the air, bombers of the Soviet navy^s 750-plane, land-based air force continually test to see how close they can approach U.S. carriers before they are detected by radar and intercepted by the carrier's own planes. Their aim is to avoid being caught until they have got within 100 miles of the carrier. Reason: from that range, the Russians would have a good chance of scoring...
...insecticides, the study finds, the defoliant herbicides do not concentrate in animal tissue. As a result, dangerous effects on animals and humans are "unlikely." But temporary defoliation over widespread areas could threaten the existence of some animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
Montreal has been on an unbelievable tear for the last month and the Canadians are leading the League with Chicago. New York, and Boston close behind...
Chairman of the Rockefeller group, John A. Beckett, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, said in an interview that he has seen polls that show that a Rockefeller write-in effort could come close to or even surpass Romney, whose name is on the ballot...
...late, Harvard began to play its best hockey of the night. Bauer guided in a Carr shot at 7:27 for his first goal, but Don D'Angelo scored for St. Lawrence from close range...