Word: gears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arguing that it really was an "airplane," and that no piston-engined machine could possibly match the tremendous torque (1,000 foot-pounds) and acceleration produced by its 550-h.p. Pratt & Whitney power plant. But Foyt is nothing if not a pragmatist: he ordered a special "overdrive" gear installed in his Coyote-Ford to save his engine and cut down on fuel consumption. He was content to play tortoise to Jones's hare, drive at a steady pace and allow Parnelli to pull away-gambling that the turbine car would break down before the 500 miles were...
...around honky-tonk Tijuana, 17 miles from San Diego, more than a dozen new plants have sprouted to produce such things as magnetic memory cores for Litton Industries and power transistors for Fairchild Camera. Factories in Mexicali make integrated circuits for Raytheon and motor parts for Western Gear. In Nuevo Laredo, southwest of Laredo, Texas, Mexican workers are doing everything from making electronics parts for Transitron Electronic Corp. to sorting supermarket "cents-off" coupons for the A.C. Nielsen Co., the big TV-rating and marketing-services firm...
Linked up head and tail like circus elephants by their "escape ropes," each humping half a hundredweight of gear,* the muzzles of their rifles still taped to keep out gunk, the scouts took advantage of distant artillery salvos to mask their footfalls on the way back to a prearranged retrieval zone. Brown, in the lead, groped his way back through the blackness by memorizing the map and counting his own steps; each time his left foot hit the ground 67 times, he calculated the team had covered 100 meters. Back at the landing zone, Brown's whispered message filtered...
...pull its casualties back into a nearby church. All that day mortars crashed around it, but none hit the roof. Even so, it was more than 40 hours before enough helicopters could get in to evacuate all the wounded. The next morning, the Marines blew up all the gear and extra ammunition that they could not carry and fought their way clear, carrying their dead in litters. Then the assault continued northward, though some 40% of the Marine force was killed or wounded*-many from mortar fire from...
...practice on the bayonet. They take you about 500 men at a time, actually between 300 and 500 depending on who has bayonet practice that day. They line you up in rows of 100 and you have all your field gear on--your packs and weapons--and the bayonet with the six inch steel head. In front of you on this platform is one of the drill instructors and he's got a megaphone and he shouts you through the various moves. You know like "On guard, ahh" and all this kind of stuff. You have to growl with each...