Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Restic hopes to counter the potent UMass attack (which besides Pennington features fleet halfback Paul Metallo, who romped for three touchdowns last weekend and split end Steve Schubert) with a few offensive flourishes of his own. The Crimson offense will once again feature multiple sets, backs in motion and a lot of passing. Captain Ted DeMars, last season's rushing leader with 704 yards, will hold down one halfback shot and will handle the bulk of the ball carrying. Transfer Mark Wheeler, back in action after sitting out last year, will start at the other halfback position. Wheeler has what...
...there are future hopes for the flow of cash, there are many who panic when they think of the 'flow' of cars. Already, navigation of Cambridge streets resembles the maneuvers by a sailing fleet in the Doldrums...
...robot air fleet is no technological pipedream. Although the U.S. has long used drones for target practice and spy missions, it is only relatively recently that miniaturized computers, tiny remote-controlled TV cameras, sophisticated laser-guided "smart bombs" and other breakthroughs in electro-optical gear have made RPVs both technologically and economically feasible for combat. The U.S.'s most widely used fighter-bomber, the F-4 Phantom, for example, costs $3.6 million; an RPV capable of the same missions, according to some experts, probably could be built for about $250,000 because the plane would not require such expensive...
...brother Jean, 51. Dominique's base has been Marseille, where he has been known as a political crony of Mayor Gaston Deferre, the Socialist candidate for President of France in 1969. Dominique got into the narcotics-smuggling business in 1953, and at one time ran a fleet of yachts for hauling morphine base from the Middle East to Marseille. Jean Venturi, who went to Canada in 1952 and is believed to be operating there still, is sometimes credited with pioneering the technique of hiding heroin in the nooks and crannies of imported autos...
...secret buildup of forces in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia," began Sibley's statement. He went on to say that United Air Lines was a "major contributor to the war effort," and he threatened to destroy not only the plane he had hijacked but the entire United fleet. "It is those who support and encourage this war who should be prosecuted, not us," the hijacker wrote...