Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...
...surprise Soviet attack. For this reason there is little opposition to modernizing the strategic submarine fleet by building 14 Tridents, at a cost of about $1.2 billion each. The current budget, in fact, provides $2.9 billion for the Trident program...
...navigator. Those two the Russians detained for further questioning on why the plane had ventured so far off course and into Soviet airspace. The Kola Peninsula is a highly sensitive military area for the Soviet Union. Not only is Murmansk the home port for Russia's northern fleet, but there are an estimated 900,000 soldiers and airmen based on the peninsula. Since the Soviets not only had the two key crewman but also the Korean airliner and its "black box" of tapes that record a plane's functioning throughout a flight, it might be some time before...
...idea of using the sun's energy is far from new. Archimedes is said to have focused the sun's rays with mirrors to set on fire an invading Roman fleet in 212 B.C. Over the past century, experimental solar units have been used to power everything from a printing press in France to a water-distilling plant in Chile. With today's advanced technology, the potential is enormous. The sunlight falling on earth could theoretically provide 100,000 times the total energy output of all existing power stations. At present there are three forms of active...
This year's crop of American rookies is the finest in the league's history. Greg Makowski, 21, is a rugged fullback for the Caribous, and Billy Gazonas is a fleet, slick and tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 135 lbs.) playmaker at midfield for the Tulsa Roughnecks. The new American kids do not stand in awe of most of the Europeans. Says 20-year-old Gary Etherington, a Cosmos forward: "I don't see that much difference between us and them, except for the big stars." And Big Star Chinaglia is a fan of the young Americans...