Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sophisticated electronic systems and radar screens that operate around the clock. All aircraft?including Israeli military planes?are barred from flying over the areas where the nuclear plants are located. During the Six-Day War, in fact, an Israeli Mirage III?either out of control or with its communications gear in operative?inadvertently flew over Dimona. Israeli defenders shot it down with a ground-to-air missile. In 1973 a Libyan airliner flying from Benghazi to Cairo lost its way because of a navigational error and flew toward a forbidden area. Israeli fighters tried to turn it back. Then...
George Foster has been around professional baseball for a while and knows how to gear himself for each new season. "I relaxed over the winter," Foster said. But even then, baseball is still on his mind. "I think about particular pitchers and how they pitch to me." But once he gets down to Tampa, Foster says, he works on "all facets of the game" as well as conditioning his hands, wrists and arms...
Right up to her last day in office, she was out of touch with reality. On that day, while soldiers in combat gear were taking up their coup positions, she went on with business as usual, receiving new ambassadors from Switzerland and Rwanda. Only when her helicopter, which she had boarded to go to her suburban villa, was diverted to the Buenos Aires municipal airport did she seem to realize what was happening. There, an officer told her bluntly: "Señora, you are under detention. The government you have led is a calamity. The armed forces are taking over...
...initial might well stand for electronic. E-Systems produces or services a wide range of civilian and military electronic gear. Samples...
...already and the parties were in second gear going into the first hairpin turn, yelping at the little mechanical rabbit and jostling for position. It was time to move to a new location, close the shop out, hold a 50 per cent sale. The only pun we could dredge up concerned the cataracts of the Nile, but all the Egyptian suntanned silt fucked up our upstairs wiring...rinse it out, waterfalls, going over the edge of the abyss...