Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, by playing a diplomatic ping-pong game with Moscow and Washington, Daoud managed to build an economic infrastructure for his country. Soviet engineers cut the world's highest road tunnel through the Hindu Kush escarpment at Salang Pass; Americans erected a vaulting jet airport at Kandahar, the country's second city; together, they have pushed miles of highway across the high, harsh plateau. Along the Helmand River, eight U.S.-financed hydroelectric dams began rising...
...Burma. Last year it reached South Viet Nam and Japan. Then it spread into Iran and Uzbekistan. By last August it had climbed the Himalayan foothills into Nepal. It is probably only a matter of time, say worried epidemiologists, before an infected airborne traveler takes El Tor on a jet-propelled trip to the West...
What group gave its approval to films dealing with such touchy themes as unwed pregnancy (The L-Shaped Room), sexual fetishism (The Collector), infidelity (Juliet of the Spirits), and the emptiness of Jet Set life (Darling)! The answer: that stern old guardian of movie morals, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Despite its reputation as a censorious successor to Comstock, the Legion has lately changed into a surprisingly sophisticated appraiser of adult films; it is even dropping its rather arrogant and muscular name...
Theoretically, an old-fashioned ramjet can fly through the atmosphere at almost unlimited velocities, but its top speed is limited to about 4,000 m.p.h. by practical considerations. The jet flame, burning conventional fuels, tends to blow out at supersonic flight speeds (above 720 m.p.h. at low altitudes). If it is to keep burning and providing thrust, the ramjet needs an inlet shape to generate its own shock wave, which will slow passage of air through the combustion chamber to a subsonic flow. Above 4,000 m.p.h., however such an inlet design could cause excessive temperatures and pressures...
...Craig Breedlove, 28: another world land speed record (his second in three weeks), becoming the first man ever to drive a car at 600 m.p.h. when he averaged 600.6 m.p.h. for two runs through the measured mile in his jet-powered streamliner Spirit of America; at Bonneville, Utah...