Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's deadly missions into North Viet Nam flew out of Thailand, from which 80% of all U.S. Air Force strikes over the North originate. Of the U.S.'s 40,000 military men stationed in Thailand, some 28,000 are Air Force pilots, mechanics and othsr ground-support personnel who maintain or fly 300 strike aircraft and 250 support planes from six U.S.-operated bases. Under Thailand's "gentlemen's agreement" with the U.S., the bases are considered Thai bases and are commanded by Thai officers. Thai air police control access to the bases...
...trickier for Major Dick Desing, 36, who flies night missions out of Ubon; he must swoop low through enemy fire, seeking out moving trucks and barges with only the glow of his flares to guide him. "You see all the flak coming up, all the guns flashing on the ground," he says. "But you're too busy to be afraid. You're tracking, moving, dropping bombs and climbing." When it is all over and the pilot heads back to Thailand, the reaction is almost always the same: a dry, cotton mouth. "After that, the rest is a piece...
...until last week a journeyman speed-bailer with only four complete games all season. He allowed the Red Sox seven hits and two runs, but for nine long innings last week no one could fault him in the clutch-least of all Carl Yastrzemski, whom he forced into ground outs three times, all three of them with men on base...
...says, "is that all my sculpture is on the edge of dreams. They come close to the unconscious in spite of their geometry. On one level, my work has clarity. On another, it is chaotic and imagined." The Snake Is Out, for example, coils for 24 ft. along the ground in back of Lincoln Center, bulging in its black skin like some prehistoric reptile. It propels the viewer to circle it and savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing. Yet the title, piling allegory upon allusion, comes from John McNulty's Third Avenue Medicine: "The snake...
Meteorologists have long tried to make rain and break up hailstorms by seeding clouds with silver iodide or lead iodide. Drifting upward from generators on the ground or fed into the clouds from aircraft, the particles become nuclei around which tiny water droplets can cluster to form larger drops and, eventually, hailstones. If enough nuclei are available, according to theory, they compete so vigorously for the moisture in the cloud that none of the hailstones has a chance to become very large...