Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JORDAN, which committed only two brigades to the 1973 war and suffered small losses, will get 14 Hawk antiaircraft batteries from the U.S. in 1977. It has also obtained 42 secondhand American-made F-5A jet fighters from Iran and 36 of the newest version of that plane-the F-5E-from Washington. In addition, Amman is busily improving its vintage M48 Patton tanks by installing diesel engines and more powerful guns...
...existence "dullness made God . . . the contentment of the quiet dead." But rural and small-town life has been modernized and is no longer stultifyingly isolated. The interstate highway system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes its news and entertainment into the countryside. Along with lesser fare, Live from Lincoln Center can now be seen across the country without going to New York and paying the price...
...made the controversial decision in February to permit the Concorde, the joint British-French supersonic jet, to land in New York and Washington. New York State has moved to stop the landings, but Dulles Airport in Washington, being a federal facility, is bound by Coleman's ruling...
Students by and large saw him as a jet-setter, "an eccentric Southern aristocrat" always "flying off the Rio or something." But Simpson doesn't remember Spiro making outrageous boasts. When newspapers reported Pavlovich as having a silver-blue Mercedes Benz, wearing three-piece suits to class and bragging of a Rhodes Scholarship, Simpson was surprised. When he saw Pavlovich, he says, "He drove a blue Plymouth and wore plain corduroy coats. He said he had studied in England, but not on a Rhodes...
...bombs in paper balloons made of tightly glued pieces of parchment-like paper. Only about 280 are known to have reached the U.S. and hit the ground - in Ore gon, Wyoming, Montana and as far in land as Iowa. The Japanese had hoped the bombs, launched into the Pacific jet streams, would ignite forest fires in the Pacific Northwest and panic...