Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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North Vietnamese gun crews who survive are often baffled by confused white lines racing across their radar scopes, the result of the fresh jamming technology...
Worst of all, the fight seemed to settle nothing. Both sides went off to lick their wounds, buy fresh armaments and ammunition, and presumably have another go at the flower power struggle with all cannon blazing...
Although the oceans lap at their shores, more than 18,000 miles of the world's coastlines are virtually uninhabited because of the lack of available fresh water. Visionaries have long dreamed of using sea water to make these deserts bloom, but University of Arizona Scientist Carl Hodges is actually doing something about it. And not by means of futuristic and costly nuclear-powered desalination plants, but by efficient use of simple diesel-electric engines like those that now provide power to remote communities all over the world. A pilot project on Mexico's Gulf of California...
...heat exchanger. Sea water pumped through the exchanger is heated to 160° F., and then passed into a tower evaporator. About 10% of the heated water is vaporized, condensed into pure water on the sea-water-cooled coils of an adjacent condenser tower and stored in a fresh water tank...
...Russian SU-100 tank destroyers, machine guns, mortars and bazookas. The only access was through a zigzag of mined concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead position...