Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Communists, who by allied count have lost 71,000 men since Tet, could muster a second offensive on the same devastating scale. But just in case they tried, allied troops were put on the alert throughout South Viet Nam. City dwellers were asked to stockpile food and fuel, lock their doors and stay home. Saigon police threw a cordon around the capital to block arms infiltration. The U.S. 25th Infantry Division was deployed around Tan Son Nhut airport and the allied headquarters there, and B-52s bombed the Communists' likely approaches to Saigon...
...despite the holocaust, and the flawed performance of the Saturn 5 moon rocket three weeks ago, it is still ahead of the Soviet Union's. Engineers now blame the Saturn 5 failures on what appear to be a pair of rare flukes-a leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with...
...boarding buses, Kansas City police responded to a thrown pop bottle with a popping of tear-gas bombs. During the rock concert itself, officers investigating a report of a glass-breaking incident heard the tumult from the church basement and hurled tear gas inside, routing the kids. That added fuel to a rampage resulting in 250 fires, $500,000 damage in looting and burning, 65 injuries and six deaths-all of them Negroes shot by cops...
Everything was sunshine for Harvard's tennis team Saturday as the Crimson netmen crushed a highly-rated Amherst squad 9-0. Unusually high temperatures only added fuel to the hot Crimson rackets as the Harvard players eliminated their opponents in rapid succession...
...fire longer, the rocket had not achieved its programmed velocity by the time the third stage was ready to take over. Thus to achieve orbital velocity of 17,500 m.p.h., the third stage was required to fire 23 seconds longer than planned, consuming 20,000 extra pounds of fuel...