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...CRUISE MISSILE: A jet-powered drone that flies, or "cruises," through the atmosphere, rather than arcing into space on a ballistic trajectory, like a rocket. The cruise missile finds its way to a target by matching the terrain over which it flies against a map stored in its computerized brain. Because it is small (about 18 ft. long) and flies very low, it is difficult for the Air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on test flight enemy to track and intercept. There are three varieties: the air-launched cruise missile, ALCM (pronounced al-kum), which is fired from a bomber...
...lessons Tuchman offers in The March of Folly, in short, may not be worth the drone of the lecture. Tuchman's enduring virtues have been the clarity and grace of her elegant sentences, spinning out images of the past that took the reader to the scene. In this new enterprise she sometimes seems too much in a hurry to pause for that valuable indulgence. Her dense, rapid-fire synopsis of the siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious...
...conventional drowsy drone of the Indian-run bingo game is not so different from that played in church basements and lodge halls all over California and the U.S. But it is certainly more lucrative: Indian reservations like the Morongos' are not subject to most civil regulatory laws-including the California provision that limits bingo jackpots to a measly $250. Thus Indian Village Bingo offers an average total nightly payoff of $20,000 and a jackpot that last week reached $48,000. Thirty-five of the Morongo Indians have been provided jobs; near by, the Barona tribe's bingo...
Below him a host of white, fleecy clouds drifted like icebergs in the ocean of air. The real ocean lay so far because it could not be seen. Dreamily at first, hailed by the steady drone of the engines, Surkov gazed down and around him. How fragile, minute, meaningless was his life, flying over this great expense...
...news, MacNeil and Lehrer do an impressive job of rounding up people knowledgeable on a subject. Network executives, seeing the program win so many awards, condescendingly praise it as worthy; it is far more than that, even though there are nights when foreign accents become too thick, or economists drone too long over their hedgings. There is now an imitator in ABC's late-night Nightline with Ted Koppel; he is well-briefed and quick-witted, but it isn't in him to be as self-effacing as MacNeil or Lehrer...