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Word: gearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the Army's 16 active divisions, the report says, have been stripped of certain categories of existing equipment and shortchanged on new gear because Viet Nam, understandably, gets top priority. As a result, there are "significant" shortages compounded by problems of equipment obsolescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Stripped & Shortchanged | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...long sensing probe hanging from its belly made contact with the ground. The sensor automatically fired two small braking rockets about the size of portable fire extinguishers. With a resounding bang and a thick cloud of grey smoke, the capsule touched down on a tricycle landing gear similar to a set of small water skis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Soft Landing on Hard Ground | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth of communications gear by a U.S. company to Indonesia's armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Coping with the Bung | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

...Murray the K [July 9] is also Murray the KL#151;leader, that is. He put on a show that was fab gear and laid some good words on us in a way that was only a bit of all right. He's what's happening, baby, and you're not. Don't bug my leader, TIME. Keep outta his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

Exactly 135 & Six. With all the Lotus' ailments, it was only natural that Clark should become a pretty good sidewalk mechanic. So good, in fact, that he could turn a practice lap, whisk back into the pit, and announce: "We've got to jiggle the gear ratios-25, 27 maybe. Even with a good tow, I'm not getting the revs." At the same time, he was polishing his driving skills to the point where he could say: "When I go into a corner, I can tell you instantly whether I'm inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Hero with a Hot Shoe | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

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