Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops now being sent are from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division and the Marine Corps' 5th Division-the most mobile and professional outfits remaining in the U.S.-based strategic Reserve. This leaves intact just three regular Army divisions-committed to NATO and not organized for fast deployment to underdeveloped countries-plus most of a Marine division and six Army brigades dispersed from Alaska to the Canal Zone. Many of the men now en route to Viet Nam have been there before, and some have not even enjoyed the usual two-year respite between combat tours. To prevent...
Peter's successors frittered away the fleet, but when Catherine the Great came to power in 1762, she began a massive rebuilding program. To find enough officers to command her new ships, Catherine collected foreign naval men almost as fast as she collected lovers. Among them was the American Revolutionary War hero, John Paul Jones, who, despite his bravery and gift for quick phrasemaking, had risen no higher than captain in the U.S. Navy. In return for an admiral's rank, Jones took command of a Russian sailing fleet composed of four battleships, eight frigates and assorted smaller craft that...
...millimeters," he says. "Sometimes it's worth it to take risks, but sometimes it costs you more than you gain. For example, if you have three turns followed by a right angle at the end, the ideal thing to do is to take the three turns as fast as you can and still make the right angle tightly. But sometimes you are better off taking the first three turns more easily so that you can take the last one very well. You can lose a whole second in one single turn. That is something most skiers still...
...Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based producer of natural gas, and a uranium mining and processing firm called United Nuclear Corp. Both deals fell through, partly, it seems evident, because the Cities Service powers, whether right or wrong, were leery about committing too much money too fast to external expansion. The policy-difference became so deep that, once again, John Burns...
Bobby Bauer accounted for a pair of third-period Harvard goals, but by the time the Crimson recovered against their fast-breaking, sharp-passing adversaries, the cause was lost...