Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Watergate was just an example of high-level political skulduggery, and probably a lot more like it has taken place without ever having been brought to light. If all the dirty political pots were to call the kettles black, we'd have quite an array of messy kitchen ware...
Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...
...lot of the methods have sure changed. Nowadays, they talk about the coming of the electronic battlefield...
...transistors are the bullets of World War III." And the computers will be the tanks. We were told that the Pentagon gets enough intelligence data on tape and film every day to equal 40 complete Encyclopaedia Britannicas plus a couple of Gone With the Winds. A lot of the information is picked up by those spy-in-the-sky satellites. They take clear pictures in color, black and white, infra-red or ultraviolet. They also eavesdrop on radio and microwave communications. This is called "ferreting," and we have 6,000 people who do nothing but try to interpret voices...
...While we're talking have-moves, an awful lot of people have left Cambridge entirely for Washington, D.C. It happens every four years, kind of like lemmings...