Word: heaviest
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After 1½ hours, the 271st broke off the attack and retreated through the heavy jungle, carrying its wounded and most probably many of its dead. It left behind 103 V.C. corpses. U.S. losses were the heaviest taken in a single engagement since early summer: 55 killed, 66 wounded. But elsewhere the ground action was relatively light. Though the Allies sent a total of 56 battalion-size sweeps searching for enemy throughout South Viet Nam, the only other place where the Communists fought rather than ran was in the northern I Corps area. Near Quang Tri City, 80 miles north...
...supported not only by Marine and Army artillery but also by B-52 Stratofortresses, each packing 60,000 lbs. of bombs, U.S. warships bristling with 5-and 8-in. guns, and clouds of fighter planes. Westmoreland described the bombardment of suspected Red gun positions as the heaviest concentration of firepower "on any single piece of real estate in the history of warfare...
Dramatic Travel. It is the uranium that gives the flechettes their impressive muscle. Cleansed of its fissionable isotopes U-235, the depleted uranium is safe to handle. Because it is one of the heaviest natural elements (a 1-ft. cube of uranium weighs 1,167 lbs.), even a tiny uranium flechette fired at high velocity from a gun has so much kinetic energy that it can penetrate a target at an angle as oblique...
Today, our courts face the heaviest caseloads in our history. Backlogs continue to mount and the time space between the commencement of action and the termination of the case continues to rise. For the ninth consecutive year the number of appeals on the dockets of our courts of appeals in the federal system has increased. Ten per cent more cases were filed in these courts in fiscal 1967 than in 1966. Since 1960 the number of appeals in these courts has more than double. Cases in the federal district courts are increasing every year. Bankruptcy cases have now gone over...
...transuranium counterparts -appeared to be in no rush to disappear. The California scientists eventually determined that its half life (the time in which half the atoms of an element decay) was nearly two months. This compared, for example, with only eight seconds for lawrencium 257, until now the heaviest of the known atoms...