Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...north, some 45,000 marines clustered around Hué, Danang and Chu Lai. The new 1st Cav settled at An Khe, just off Route 19, main artery leading to the beleaguered Central Highlands. Qui Nhon, Route 19's eastern terminus, was held by South Korea's crack 15,000-man Capital Division...
...fuel tanks clear of a crashed plane; resilient, supertough nylon fuel tanks that would not burst on impact; a jelly-consistency fuel that would smolder instead of explode; and fail-safe instrument systems that would permit entrusting difficult landings to the automatic pilot. In zero-zero visibility, jet pilots crack, their only problem after landing may then be to find their way to the terminal...
Idea of Firing. For a longer-range solution, Mohieddin has started a birth-control program that he hopes will eventually reduce the number of mouths to feed. He also vows to crack down on the country's notoriously inefficient government-run factories. "We must make it honorable to do a day's work," he says. "And we must get used to the idea of firing people who will not work." As the 70,000 Egyptian troops return from Yemen, Mohieddin intends to demobilize many of them and retrain them for jobs in industry...
...Winston Churchill's funeral this year; of cancer; in London. He brought such knowledge and unabashed love of the Establishment to his broadcasts that Britons nicknamed him Bishop Dimbleby, Dick Dimbleboom and the Royal Plum Pudding-though he could, in a moment of off-mike irreverence, crack that "We marry 'em, we crown 'em and we bury...
...Mission Control Center near Houston. Primped and primed and ready to go for more than a year, the electronic memory housed in the grey, blue-trimmed cabinets had been taught all the incredible complications of orbital calculations, had learned the long, involved equations worked out by teams of crack mathematicians...