Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flat-facade buildings seem oddly two-dimensional. One suspects that Carter's Worm Farm, the Peanut Museum and the half-dozen other establishments are folded away after a day's shooting. At the end of the street is the crowning bit of make-believe, the period-piece depot that does not deal with trains at all but is Carter's headquarters, festooned with peanut wreaths and campaign paraphernalia. On the freight platform is the rocking chair where Miss Lillian, Carter's already legendary mother, gives her thousandth interview...
...Syrian troops that originally arrived on a "peacekeeping" mission punched their way down the mountainous Damascus-Beirut highway last week to the outskirts of the Lebanese capital. Twenty-five miles to the south, Syrian armor drove to within range of Sidon, the only significant port and supply depot still in Palestinian-leftist hands. The two-part attack, if it succeeds, will reduce Palestinian-held territory to three enclaves cut off from ammunition and fuel. If that happens, reports TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, "the war in effect will be over, though real peace will be a long time coming...
...McClure learned too late. A born loser and high school dropout from Lufkin, Texas, McClure had been rejected by the Army and Air Force before he somehow passed the Armed Forces Qualification Test in San Antonio, after failing it in Lufkin. Sent last year to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, he was quickly tagged a "problem recruit" and assigned to a "motivation" platoon. When he defied orders to participate in a pugil-stick fight (a simulated bayonet drill in which 12-lb. poles padded on both ends are used as weapons), Bronson ordered other recruits to whale...
...capital as a port," he cabled, "they number barely more than the Americans. There are perhaps 20 diplomats and staff at the Cuban Embassy, ten language teachers, six doctors on loan, two or three staff members of Cubana Airlines and a team of technicians at an airport fuel depot...
...billion arms deal with the Soviets that includes 24 MIG-23s, 1,100 tanks, 800 armored personnel carriers and 50 batteries of antiaircraft missiles. Since these enormous quantities are well beyond Libya's defense needs, Israeli officials view them as a kind of "Arab weapons-supply depot" accessible to any nation willing to fight Israel. The huge Saudi and Iraqi arsenals could be put to the same use. Compounding Jerusalem's worries about the Arab arms buildup was the creation last year of a joint Syrian-Jordanian military command on Israel's eastern front...