Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vulnerability. In 1973 Exxon rolled up worldwide sales of $28.5 billion -about the same as the NATO defense budget. Rigs working for Exxon or companies that it partly owns bring up oil from the Arctic tundra, the Arabian deserts, the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil are distilled from the crude at refineries in Benicia, Calif., Rotterdam, Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pumps blazoning the names Exxon or Esso (still widely used outside the U.S.) dispense gasoline in Canadian fishing villages, Zaire jungle outposts and along war-torn roads...
...remarkable jet shuttle between Aswan and Jerusalem that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger employed to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreement was distinctively different at either end. At the Israeli terminus, Kissinger often had to await a consensus on issues in the talks among the members of Premier Golda Meir's Cabinet. On the Egyptian end, in contrast, he essentially dealt only with President Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President has so improved his stature since taking uncertain control of the government on the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970 that he was able to accept or turn down...
...Soviet design employs a revolutionary principle: the jet blast from the eight engines mounted on the stubby forward wing is aimed to hit the water and bounce back up under the main wing to create a lifting bubble of air similar to that on which Hovercraft ride. When fully developed in the late '70s, the creation is expected to thunder along at speeds up to 350 m.p.h. while flying only 25 to 50 feet above the water-low enough to make radar detection difficult. What is more, the huge aircraft could make two-to three-day voyages extending...
...Government and the people of the U.S. I am confident that relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S. will continue to develop to the benefit of our peoples and in the interests of international security and peace." Two hours later, Brezhnev's blue and white Ilyushin-62 jet landed in Havana, and the Russian leader began a week-long visit that at times seemed mainly aimed at patching up relations between Cuba...
...crossed the canal on a barge to join the Third Army on the east bank. On a broad sandy plain, a curious collection had been assembled. To the rear, in a 100-yard semicircle, were arranged captured Israeli tanks, guns, missiles, shells and even the wreckage of a Phantom jet. In the center of the semicircle a white monument had been erected honoring the men who died during the Israeli siege of the army. In between booty and monument, officers and men representing all units of the Third Army were drawn...