Word: complemented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulbous bomb, nearly 12 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter, weighing 10,000 lbs.--was loaded into another of the 509th Group's B-29s at Tinian. The plane and its complement of escorts took off the next morning at 3:47 and headed for Kokura, a city that contained a major weapons arsenal, on the north coast of the island of Kyushu. Finding the target obscured by clouds and facing a fuel shortage on the strike plane, Major Charles W. Sweeney decided to fly over the alternate target on his way to an emergency landing on Okinawa...
...approaching two television producers significantly past the age of 25 to concoct a nighttime soap opera. What partners Mary-Ellis Bunim (a veteran of Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change...
...Russian programs complement each other nicely. Russia has vastly more experience with long-term human space flight, and thanks to its unsophisticated but highly reliable boosters, its launch rate is more successful than that of any other country. The U.S., on the other hand, is better at electronics and engineering--which is why Russia's version of the space shuttle is rusting in a warehouse, never having carried a human into space...
...flood the interiors of assembly buildings, and some of the launching pads are no longer usable. "People steal anything, even copper cable or sheet metal from the roofs of buildings," reports Sergei Leskov, a space correspondent for Izvestia. Last year a supply rocket reached Mir with part of its complement of food missing--evidently looted on the ground by launch crews. The danger is not so much of an accident, say U.S. space experts, as of a breakdown that could torpedo the schedule and drive costs up. That could prove fatal to a program many U.S. critics consider a scientific...
Zegans said he volues the play's use of physical language to complement the text...