Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highway behind the camp at 40 m.p.h. and skidded out of control. Perhaps already on fire, it crashed into a retaining wall, rolled and, as it exploded, spewed torrential fountains of fire that washed across most of Los Alfaques. Flames towering hundreds of feet engulfed vacationers and their gear, setting off a secondary round of blasts from exploding butane cookers and automobile gas tanks. Parts of the tanker were blown almost half a mile away. Trailers were burnt to their frames in an instant, like paper models. Campers ran into the water to douse the flames on their bodies, only...
...future of the anchor profession itself is not assured. Station managers and news directors will be watching closely this week when ABC News introduces its new network evening-news format, which will replace two New York-based anchors with four regional supercorrespondents. More and more stations are buying electronic gear, like minicams, that makes it easier to cover breaking news "live," a move that some TV journalists say will diminish the anchor role...
...hobbyists deck themselves out in historically accurate garb and gear, right down to pewter buttons. Otto de Pierne, a chemical researcher from East Norwalk, Conn., spent $7,000 outfitting himself as a surgeon, even collecting the original bottles for 118 drugs carried by 18th century battlefield medics, as well as all the drugs-except opium-which he had to simulate. At Monmouth, he put on his 18th century glasses but apologized for wearing modern shoes. He also brought along his colonial desk, with quill pen and linen paper...
...consul had indeed been involved in some Moscow capers of a type that are more or less routine in the murky world of espionage. She was a CIA agent operating under diplomatic cover in Moscow. Nabbed by Soviet counterintelligence last July, she was photographed with an array of spy gear and quietly allowed to leave the U.S.S.R. under diplomatic immunity. She was reassigned to Washington. Hours after the appearance of the Izvestiya story, the State Department instructed the CIA to put Peterson on leave. She immediately dropped out of sight. In answer to queries about the Izvestiya charges...
There is no slick stuff about Seger, not on the records and not in concert. His brown hair flows over the collars of modified Elizabethan shirts, stage gear long out of favor. The music has no labyrinthine lyrics or arcane chord changes. Seger still opens his show with Tina Turner's good-humored, hard-rocker Nutbush City Limits, and the song sets the tone for what follows: plain good times...