Word: lande
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Dominating the experts' discussions -as indeed it does all U.S. military planning-was the specter of the Soviet nuclear buildup. In 1965 the U.S. enjoyed about a 4-to-1 lead over the Soviets in strategic nuclear missiles; today the Soviets deploy 1,477 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS), compared with 1,054 for the U.S., and the Russian lead in submarine-launched nuclear weapons is 909. v. 656. The main American advantages remain in its bombers (417. v. 140). the accuracy of its missiles and the number of warheads (9,000, v. 4,000). But many...
...land, the U.S.S.R.'s conventional advantage is most dangerous in central and northern Europe. There the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact vastly outstrips NATO in military manpower (945,000, v. 630,000), tanks (20,500, v. 7,000), artillery (10,000, v. 2,700) and fixed-wing warplanes (3,525, v. 2,050). While an imbalance has existed for some time, the gap has been widening in recent years, increasing the doubts about NATO'S ability to repel an attack. Although that attack may never come, the possibility has important political consequences and therefore needs...
...private faculty discussions, in the columns of the Daily and the Des Moines Register and between state legislators. One lawmaker, State Senator Bass Van Gilst, noted indignantly that Weltha, in his reincarnation course, "seems to be teaching a pagan religion. To me, it's not the duty of land-grant colleges to pursue these things...
Irish writers are silkworms in spinning words. They have an abiding sense of the past and have never really lost the oral tradition that makes them grand tellers of tales. The psychology of their land is that of loss, but the loss is borne with salty wit and exuberantly wild fantasy...
...World naturalists believed that the newly discovered land to the west was inhabited by spiders the size of cats, beasts more cunning than anything in mythology, and plants capable of curing most of the ills that befell man. The field naturalists who began studying North American flora and fauna in the 18th century proved that the realities were in some ways as unbelievable as the fantasies. The amateur collectors and skilled scientists fanned out into the New World gathering animals, insects and plants by the bushelful. By the end of the 19th century, they had succeeded in writing not merely...