Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plaza Picasso Wings for passage, ground for anchor. Art is. Only love frees the sprung ribs...
Problem: Attack and neutralize the enemy fortifications in a minimal amount of time, seizing and holding the high ground with a force of only...
...fist of tanks and armor-borne troops would smash straight up into all the defenses in one concentrated attack. Once the fist had punched through, at whatever terrible cost, reinforcements would pour behind it to spill out in back of the enemy and flank him on his own high ground...
Masters on the Heights. Israeli military planners had reckoned that if their forces won the high ground on the first day, the rest of the campaign would be easy. It was. The next morning the Golani infantrymen met only token resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense...
...only one hatch, and it can be opened with a ratchet from inside in about five seconds. The mechanism of the new, 70-lb. hatch, which Low says can be opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts of a simpler solution to docking or passageway problems when they return to the command module in the spacecraft designed to carry them to and from the lunar...