Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Press Club speech, Clifford also called for the retention of a large U.S. ground force in Europe, which until recently was the target of powerful congressional economizers. "The events of the past few weeks have clearly demonstrated that a significant American military presence in Western Europe is still needed," the Defense Secretary said...
...time since 1945. The arrival of 275,000 Soviet soldiers in Czechoslovakia drastically unbalances what for two decades had been a relative parity between the opposing NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. Furthermore, the new Soviet presence along the Bavarian border of Czechoslovakia turns the flank on NATO's ground defenses, erected and maintained to meet an attack across the flat plains of East Germany...
...Iranians lived. At 2:17 on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Kakhk ceased to exist. In a few swift moments, it became the victim of Iran's worst earthquake since 1962, when 12,000 people perished. "I was taking a stroll in front of my house, when the ground started to tremble and everything became dark," one grief-stricken survivor, Hossein Hedayat, related last week. "The buildings around began falling. I grabbed a tree and hung on. When the dust settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled...
...restored to its original form simply by heating it in space. The same procedure has been proposed for orbiting a radio telescope as large as a mile in diameter. "All we have to do," says Buehler, "is put these large structures into suitably compact packages on the ground and then kick them into space and let them unfold from solar heating...
...Intersputnik satellite will weigh more than 1,000 Ibs. That would make it about four times bigger than the newest Intelsat models, the first of which is to be launched from the U.S. later this month (see cut). The Russians also say that Intersputnik will require less elaborate ground installations for transmitting and receiving, making its use less expensive than Intelsat and therefore more attractive to underdeveloped countries...