Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Western intelligence sources have only scanty information about the SA-6, but they believe that the U.S. has nothing exactly like it. Launched from a highly mobile, tracked vehicle, the SA-6, called the Gainful, is more accurate and has a much more versatile guidance system than the U.S. Hawk-the American missile closest to it. Unlike anything U.S. pilots encountered in Viet Nam, the SA-6 can hit a plane flying anywhere from just above ground level to seven miles up. The SA-6 uses its radar to focus on the incoming plane, and at the right moment launches...
...Billie Jean's best assets was Riggs himself, who never really got around to keeping his promise of doing a full month of hard training before the match. There were too many blondes to squeeze, too many reporters to hustle, too many products to hawk (TIME cover, Sept. 10). In the days before the match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces...
...lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo Aono, "and we more or less know what he is trying to tell...
Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
...Martin will carry out his own strategies remains to be seen, of course, but the Saigon government apparently welcomes him. "Oh, he's going to be great," said one confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu. "Martin is a hawk, you know." Perhaps the aide forgot that Cardinal Richelieu is remembered not for open fighting but for his skill in maneuvering others to work his will...