Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a 14-plus-hour night, Yates broke camp the next morning in wind that threatened to carry off all his gear if he wasn't careful. He then set off for the summit. It was on the way up that he heard and spotted an airplane which looked as if it might be searching for him. Later that afternoon a national guard helicopter replaced the 2-man Cessna airplane...
...building's east wing, where the communications equipment was housed. While some of the staffers crowded into the locked communications room, a dozen employees hastily shoved classified papers into burn bags that were thrown into an incinerator. A radio operator used a heavy sledgehammer to pulverize electronic gear and coding machines...
Harvard's co-captains, Hooft and Fine, put the offense back in gear by connecting on both ends of three one-and-one opportunities...
...under the worst of circumstances, the gap between prices for leaded and unleaded could increase to 8?. Some experts fear that a big differential between the two kinds of gas would tempt motorists to use leaded in cars designed for unleaded. That would damage the car's antipollution gear and increase exhaust emissions...
...council presented Reynolds with Harvard jogging shorts, a Radcliffe sweatshirt and a matching set of women's jogging gear after he finished his talk...