Word: intercepter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hidden Nevada base called "The Ranch." When its secret could no longer be kept, the airplane was described misleadingly as an "interceptor." It is more likely to be anything but. It sacrifices everything for extreme speed at extreme altitude (probably above 125,000 ft.), where there is nothing to intercept...
...Measures." As Moscow told it some 30 hours later in a stiff note protesting the U.S.'s "gross provocation," Russian MIG fighters had been sent up to intercept the wandering T-39. The MIGs, claimed the Russians, had signaled with conventional "follow-me" wigwags, and followed that with a warning burst of gunfire. When the T-39 "did not react," said the note, the fighters were "forced to undertake measures" to protect East German airspace...
Could he come over? He could indeed. The President sent his own plane to intercept Reston and his wife in Dallas, and as a Johnsonian joke drafted Bill Mauldin as copilot. The President thoroughly relished the gag's payoff: Reston did not recognize Mauldin (TIME Cover, July 21, 1961*), and let the cartoonist carry his luggage...
...much about comets. Even the brightest ones have a central nucleus only a few miles in diameter, too small to be picked out with the biggest telescope. In one of the most imaginative proposals yet, Space Technology Laboratories of Redondo Beach, Calif., plans to send a probe aloft to intercept a comet...
...invitation to Teller raised angry protests that it was merely another device to embarrass the President. Conference Chairman Faubus, who had gone along with the invitation to begin with, changed his mind, rescinded the invitation. But Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could...