Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nigh invulnerable to enemy attack. The sunken silo at Vandenberg is only one part of a subterranean complex under construction as Titan's first "hard base." Adjoining the missile tank are other sunken cylinders (see diagram), housing air-conditioning and hydraulic equipment, a power station, liquid oxygen and fuel tanks, and a command control center for the launch crew. Tunnels connect the widely dispersed elements, but after the alert, only the control center will be occupied. Remotely controlled, the monster, fueled and armed, will rise majestically to the surface as the massive doors open, go through a brief countdown...
...depend on any unwieldy combination of quarreling political parties in forging his Fifth Republic. Much more important, to a man so stiff-necked about legality, he need no longer regard himself as the creation of the disgruntled cabal of paratroopers and Algerian settlers who last May provided the fuel that blew up the Fourth Republic. The mandate was his own. His power was legitimate...
...return to power. "United we fall," cracked one prominent Laborite. Socialists, tied to a creed outworn, see the Tories successfully administering their welfare state, and the public in no mood for dated dogmas. Gaitskell himself has not caught public fancy. The party has yet to find the proper rocket fuel (o propel it on the second stage to its New Jerusalem. About the only fresh election cry came from Gaitskell. In a land where only one family in three has a car, he won big cheers by offering the campaign slogan: "A car for every British family...
...MIGs, damaged nine. Nationalist losses: none. A major factor is the superiority of Nationalist pilots, many of whom have logged up to 1,400 hours in the air, boast more flying and combat experience than U.S. pilots stationed on Formosa. The Communist pilots, kept from training by a jet-fuel shortage, have proved no match for them. The gun camera films show that the Red Chinese pilots scatter across the skies. Trained in U.S. tactics, the Nationalists fly in tight pairs and foursomes, allowing them to jump single Red stragglers with impunity. Despite official reticence, there are reliable reports that...
SUMMER had broken, and the slim cedars along Quemoy's roadways bent before the first buffeting gusts of autumn. In the fields, the silver, feathery heads of mao-tsao, a grain used for fuel and fodder, swayed like the plumes of medieval knights. At night the moon was almost full, and the pearl and coral-colored bluffs loomed like phantoms above the beaches, pounded by a foamy sea. In other times it was the loveliest of seasons, it was the loveliest of sights. But this year autumn on Quemoy was a nightmare...