Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weaponry, rolled a drumfire of incidents, any one of which could spark a new war. Israeli and Jordanian artillery dueled across the Jordan valley. Arab fedayeen guerrillas mortared a copper mine and three Israeli settlements, killing an 18-year-old army girl. In reprisal, Israelis strafed fedayeen positions, and jet-escorted helicopters blasted a Jordanian police car, killing three security men. From Lebanon, long the most peaceable of Israel's neighbors, Arab guerrillas rained rocket shells on the town of Qiryat Shemona and a nearby kibbutz, killing two civilians. In reply, Israeli troops shelled the town of Rajar...
...them. They had already undergone hours of preliminary debriefing sessions aboard the recovery carrier Yorktown, where their spaceship, blackened by its fiery re-entry into the earth's atmosphere, also got a scientific onceover. Flown from the Yorktown to Hawaii, the astronauts boarded an Air Force C-141 jet transport for a 10-hr, flight to Ellington Air Force Base, just five miles from Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center...
Protest demonstrations blossomed at once. In a graver incident, an American reconnaissance jet last June crashed into a college computer center near the Itazuke Air Base. No one was hurt, but another wave of demonstrations spread throughout the country. The jet's wreckage still lies on the campus; radical students have prevented its removal...
...long had them, and Japan's highly successful Tokaido express travels at 130 m.p.h. In December, Canadian National Railways started TurboTrain service between Montreal and Toronto, reducing the usual 4-hr. 59-min. trip to 3 hr. 50 min. The Canadian TurboTrains are as clean and smooth as jet planes and cost considerably less to ride. So far, passengers have filled them almost to capacity...
...fast trains, like jet planes, cost more than the older and slower equipment that they will replace. But they can more than pay their way-provided that travelers support them at the ticket window. How many will? A study by Arthur D. Little Inc. estimates that on trains restricted to speeds under 120 m.p.h., rail passenger traffic would rise 6% on the New York-Boston run and only 1 % on the New YorkWashington run. If the speed limit were raised to 150 m.p.h., however, the number of passengers would jump 65% on the former and 18% on the latter...