Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Young Savages. Savage gang warfare in the tenement-glutted asphalt jungle, in which the street punks fare far better than the plot-laden squares...
...stubborn search for an explanation, the bureau keeps a dozen airplanes on duty. Last week its weather squadron was near Oklahoma City, right in Tornado Alley, and whenever thunder threatened, a highflying, camera-laden U2* soared far above the thunderheads. Supersonic jets, laden with instruments, darted through the fringe of the clouds. Even far from the core they bounced suddenly from 75 m.p.h. updrafts to downdrafts moving just as fast. At the center of a storm, winds of 350 m.p.h. were not uncommon...
...unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy up the coastal highway to Elmina Castle, which now serves as Ghana's top-secret arsenal for Moscow's guns...
...week Castro's Cubans had been excited by the possibility of an imminent showdown. They could find support for their fears on Page One of the New York Times, which reported from Florida troop-laden aircraft roaring off into the night, exiled Cuban doctors called to service on a hospital ship standing by off the coast, launches making nightly runs to Cuba with explosives and saboteurs. Training groups of exiles were reported breaking up at a mysterious jungle-warfare camp in the Louisiana bayous, at a sabotage school near Houston, at a string of seven camps between Guatemala...
...critic wrote: "He has an unaffected natural talent for praising courage, chivalry and undemonstrativeness in words which inspire distaste for these good things. Have you never risen from a perusal of Mr. Davis on Chivalry with a determination never again, no matter how infirm the woman or how heavy-laden, to rise from your seat in the car for her sake...