Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nasser's army has been re-equipped and retrained by the Russians since the Six-Day War. The MIG-17s and MIG-19s that the Israeli air force destroyed on the ground have been either replaced or augmented by supersonic MIG-21s; most are now protected by a concrete revetment. Egypt is estimated to have 400 combat aircraft (compared with Israel's 350) and 800 tanks (against Israel's 1,100). For the past 16 months, Soviet advisers have been training the Egyptians to use the new equipment, going about the task so methodically that they have even supplied English...
...take any flight that comes along," said the crew-cut Navy captain. "The sooner I get off the ground the better." Alan Shepard Jr.'s eagerness was understandable. Exactly eight years ago last week, he had blasted off aboard the Freedom 7 Mercury capsule to become the nation's first man in space. But an inner-ear ailment grounded him late in 1964 and he has been holding down a NASA desk job ever since. Now after surgery, Shepard, 45, has been pronounced fit for space travel once again, possibly aboard a moon-bound Apollo sometime next year...
...face." He had uncovered a 12-ft.-high tunnel that had been sealed since Biblical times. At its other end, 100 ft. away, Yadin saw water sparkling in the torchlights. Instead of depending on springs, Ahab's engineers had dug deep to tap the natural ground water reservoir. The stonework shaft's 10-ft-wide stairways sloped gently down to the tunnel mouth and were roomy enough, Yadin believes, to accommodate two columns of donkeys-one carrying water jars up from the bottom, the other returning with empty jars...
...Harvard professor yesterday told a conference on high speed ground transportation at Carnegie-Mellon University that proposed 300-mile-per-hour trains may create problems of health and comfort for passengers...
...Eckleberg poised over a valley of ash in which there rests a supine multitude, with a string quartet in the middle playing uneasily. Yet there precariously exists among these people a fund of instinctive love for art. The problem is that this regard, if it hasn't been ground to pieces by our throttling social injustices, or bred out by our mortuary suburbs, easily deteriorates into arch-conservative sentimentality. Someone has to periodically throw some sulphur on the public's idols by burying false gods and illuminating misunderstood ones...