Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheels of the University continued turning as they have for 336 years, but even they moved in a slow gear to avoid the sweat of summer...
...robot air fleet is no technological pipedream. Although the U.S. has long used drones for target practice and spy missions, it is only relatively recently that miniaturized computers, tiny remote-controlled TV cameras, sophisticated laser-guided "smart bombs" and other breakthroughs in electro-optical gear have made RPVs both technologically and economically feasible for combat. The U.S.'s most widely used fighter-bomber, the F-4 Phantom, for example, costs $3.6 million; an RPV capable of the same missions, according to some experts, probably could be built for about $250,000 because the plane would not require such expensive...
...least one out of every three American boys in scouting. The push begins with the publication-on recycled paper-of the completely revised eighth edition of the official Boy Scout Handbook. Two changes are immediately apparent to the eye of an old Scout. Gone are advertisements for bicycles, fishing gear, .22 rifles and the first athletic supporter...
...Udylite system is hardly ready for the road. Together with its supporting gear, the Vega's experimental battery alone weighed some 2,000 lbs., almost as much as the full weight of a conventional Vega. But now that the troublesome chlorine is under control, the weight problem seems relatively minor. Symons foresees the day when zinc chloride batteries will be small enough and powerful enough to push small two-to four-passenger cars-if not at turnpike speeds, at least fast enough and far enough to meet the less strenuous demands of city and suburban driving...
First Fatalities. His only major difficulty on the transatlantic race came on the fourth day out, when a connection on his self-steering gear snapped under the hull. "There was only one thing to do," Colas later told the London Observer, sponsor of the race. "I fixed myself to the boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon...