Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next model. The Soviets generally need about half the time the U.S. needs to get a new tank into service. "The good old U.S. Army," says McChrystal, "is going to put out that IFV with every bit of innovation they can, and it'll be a monster." General Volney Warner, who retired last summer from the Army's readiness command, admits this is a problem: "There is always something coming along tomorrow that we ought to hang on a weapon. So we lose control over the development...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...terribly true. What they fail to say is that unlike Caliban, Bernard is a monster of sly and surpassing charm, and, like Prospero, his magic wand is the English tongue. He ends a characteristic diatribe on the erosion of the English class structure with the observation that "soon there'll be more photographers than people to be photographed." On the effects of alimony, he reflects bitterly: "Idle men produced an age of elegance. Idle women merely multiply hairdressers...
Experts groped for images of suitable enormity to describe the far-reaching cold wave. Meteorologist Robert Case of the National Weather Service called it simply "a glob, a monster." In essence, a frigid, unusually slow-moving air mass formed over Alaska and the Yukon, cooled further, and then was plunged suddenly southward through a high-altitude channel of powerful winds. Another National Weather Service meteorologist, Amet Figueroa, traced the violent cold even farther afield. Said he: "It has its origins in Siberia, where it's been lying for the past couple of weeks." The consequences of the Arctic cold...
...memorable vengeance match with racist overtones that was over in a lightning 2 min. 4 sec. of the first round, he crushed Germany's Max Schmeling in 1938. As champ from 1937 to 1949, he defended his title a record 25 times, but never pocketed the monster purses common today and spent years in debt...