Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English meaning. A box is a garage for such fast sports cars as spyders, which is a corruption of speeder. A pullman is a long-distance bus; water is short for water closet. Some phrases have been adopted intact, such as strip tease, baby doll, Latin lover and jet set. Topless, fortunately, brings the same vision to Italian men as to Americans...
...Facsimile transmission not only promises to eliminate the relative slowness of jet-carried airmail, it conjures up visions of home-printed newspapers. With a satellite network to gather information for the editors and the same network to transmit that information to subscribers, an improved version of office copying machines may soon be hooked to home TV sets to make high-quality reproduction of text and pictures on rolls of reusable plastic...
Harvard's sense of community is dissolving, and yet, Harvard is booming as never before. It has more money, more buildings and more people. Each year new institutes spring up, new centers blossom. Our professors have penetrated to the darkest of the jet-set, and have spanned the globe in administrative and advisory capacities...
...jet U.S. RB-47 was flying a reconnaissance mission over the Sea of Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
...been four months since Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered his big new win-the-war offensive in Yemen. In preparation, the Egyptian expeditionary force was beefed up to 48,000 men, and a fresh array of Soviet-made tanks, heavy artillery and jet planes was massed in the north, where the deposed Imam Badr makes his headquarters in a cave near the Saudi Arabian border. Republican President Abdullah Sallal fired his moderate Premier and gave Yemen's tough General Hassan Amri a mandate to take charge...