Word: deploy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commuters look at their watches while waiting for a bus. As the needle climbs, the adrenaline begins to flow faster. We fuss with our equipment, checking again the closures on jumpsuits, the buckles on parachute harnesses, the positions of rip cords on the pilot chutes that will deploy canopies and break our headlong fall to earth...
...intelligence expert. Because of its resolute independence from Soviet influence, Rumania is not privy to the most sensitive intelligence traffic between Moscow and its more compliant satellites. Nor is Pacepa apt to be well informed about the Soviet army, because his country has not permitted the Warsaw Pact to deploy troops on its soil since the mid-'60s. Nonetheless, the defector can shed some light on subjects of interest to U.S. analysts -among them the question of how Rumania's counterespionage service guards against infiltration by the Soviet KGB. The Rumanians are probably asking themselves a similar question...
...high quality, artillery and antitank weapons lack modern infrared and laser aiming devices. Most of China's tanks, moreover, are copies of Soviet products that are at least a generation old and no match for the powerful new T-72s that the Russians are beginning to deploy along the tense, 4,500-mile Sino-Soviet border. Even Peking's atomic force lacks punch. China has 80 nuclear-tipped missiles, but only two or three of them are in the 3,500-mile intercontinental-range category...
...appalled at the double standard in American-Israeli relations. On the one hand, Menachem Begin feels he can brush aside American suggestions on the peace negotiations because they constitute interference in Israeli affairs [May 15]. On the other hand, the Israelis brazenly deploy lobbyists and their government officials to pressure our Congress into voting against the stated policy of the President...
...contradictions, and after an orgy of weakness and vacillation, the wrong decision has finally been reached. Mr. Carter has been scared off the neutron weapon by the Russian propaganda barrage. It now seems that the Kremlin has virtually a right of veto on weapons that NATO is allowed to deploy...