Word: inlets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reacted to the challenge with skill and daring. Brigadier General Lami Dozo ordered as many as 72 warplanes at a time into the air, everything from Pucará attack planes to Mirage III and Dagger fighter-bombers and A-4 Skyhawk bombers. The aircraft swooped down on the San Carlos inlet from the west and from the south, their pilots showing little regard for safety as they tried to get at the fleet. In groups of up to three at a time, they raced the full length of the San Carlos anchorage on their low-level attacks. At times they flew...
...McClintock's colleagues believed in her ideas when she first considered them in the 1940s. After majoring in biology at Cornell, and adding a botany Ph.D., she began methodically cultivating maize on a little plot near an inlet of Long Island Sound. McClintock, funded by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, kept careful watch over the kaleidoscopic changes of color in the leaves and kernels of corn from one generation to the next. The changes were produced by underlying modifications in genetic structure. At the time, though, no one understood how DNA was put together or how it worked. Indeed...