Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watching the annual military parade in Red square last week, Western observers spotted two new weapons. One was an intercontinental ballistic missile that they immediately dubbed "Rudolph" because of red paint on the nose of the warhead. The other was a small tank, armed with a rocket launcher, which can be airlifted and dropped with airborne troops...
...panes behind his desk. The glowing space of light and warmth, along the book shelves and above the desk, summon for me a wealth of English recollections and associations, olden days in ancient places green and golden, many good hours of secure existence. I think of this also: lead-paint plaster, roach-invasion, rat-infestation of those desperate tenement-quarters on the other side of town in which 10,000 black and Puerto Rican families lead their hungry, hot and agonizing lives. I ask myself: Is it for this, for cruelties like these, for disproportions on this scale, that...
...night, reports Clark, "Israel takes on the air of a nation under siege. In Jerusalem the population goes indoors at sundown and stays there. The lights illuminating the walls have been shut off. Auto headlights are covered with blue paint and the windows are covered with whatever blackout material is at hand, often blankets and rugs. Blackout wardens roam the streets, warning offenders and making arrests...
...work, Government economists now compile a huge statistical grid showing how much each economic sector buys and sells from every other major sector. Using the chart, they can, for example, calculate how much a decision to slow the building of barracks will reduce the sales not only of the paint industry but also of the chemical firms from which it gets its pigment. Also, planners can decide what changes in the tax structure might increase employment in the shipping industry or promote the construction of boxcars. Explains Leontief in his high-pitched, heavily accented English: "When you make bread...
...from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine produces nearly 650 h.p. against a normal...