Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest proved to be anything from lenticular clouds to runaway balloons, kites to jet-engine exhaust. At week's end the Air Force attributed the Ann Arbor and Hillsdale apparitions to marsh gas (methane) created by organic decomposition and ignited by combustion...
...armored vehicles and nearly one-third of his air force. Since the U.S. and Britain -his principal suppliers of weaponry -had refused to replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi in a bubble-topped...
...fisherman who plucked three U.S. airmen from the water off Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just...
...head. Twenty, 30 projects at once. Never forgets a fact, never misses a trick." With his office in his head, Merrick is totally mobile. On an after-dinner impulse, he may dart into the street, grab a cab, race to Kennedy Airport, jump on a jet to London, snap up a property in Manchester, get back to New York in less than 48 hours...
...pass to Hull, and gently he took it back over his own blue line, looking for a way. Then the Golden Jet swooped, legs pumping, speed building. For halt an instant, the four Ranger skaters were split, leaving a momentary alley to the goal. Hull never paused, fired a stinging slap shot down the 40-ft. slot. The puck skipped under the goalie's stick, under his right leg-into the nets. Number 51. For nearly ten minutes, hats rained down onto the ice. Bobby picked up one and put it on, then went to the bench...