Word: intercepting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over Asia have come to accept as routine the typewriters with camouflaged gold space bars, the shipments of gold-filled salmon, the rump-heavy laying hens and the resourceful uses of just about every human orifice. But though the customs men know most of the tricks, they manage to intercept, by one estimate, less than 5% of the smuggled gold. Shrugged one cynical old hand in the gold trade: "After all, just for looking the other way when a bag of gold goes over the rail of an incoming steamer and onto a harbor boat, a customs man can pick...
...invitation to Dorticós so long that it was too late for him to accept. Peru shifted Dorticós' arrival to a distant military airfield and barred welcomers. Chile refused to admit him. Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt sent his Foreign Minister to intercept the Cuban President in Buenos Aires and persuade him to stay away because his trip "was not convenient." Dorticós rejoined that he would visit Caracas unless Betancourt publicly barred him. Betancourt then cut Dorticós' scheduled visit from five days...
...adding to the missile's payload. This is particularly important to the solid-fuel, second-generation Minuteman, a fine but small missile with definite payload limitations. Already in the works are plans to make re-entry bodies maneuver so that their courses will be unpredictable and hard to intercept. To do this, the re-entering bodies must have controls and some sort of wings to give them lift, or to make them plunge steeply, or to let them dodge from side to side...