Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incapable of Attack. Moscow has indeed sent replacements for two-thirds of the 255 jet fighters-mostly MIG-15s and MIG-17s-that were destroyed in Egypt and Syria during the war, but MIGs are defensive weapons designed primarily to shoot down enemy planes, and the Russians have been notably unhurried in supplying either country with the weapons of modern offense. Western intelligence reports indicate that Russia has replaced only a third of Egypt's 700 lost tanks, only half of its 50 bombed-out bombers and almost none of its heavy guns. Russia, moreover, has long since stopped...
...postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners. Fearful that Stalin was ready to break off relations with Britain, Churchill, alleges Hochhuth, authorized intelligence agents to arrange a fatal accident for a plane in which Sikorski was to fly from Cairo to London...
...know how." He has just read a book on Mongolia, which he liked very much, and offers to lend it out. He does not hate the Arabs--except for the Syrians--or laugh at their ludicrous performance in the air. How can you fix or fly a plane, he queries, when you never see a machine most of your life...
Dobrynin arrived in Boston shortly after noon Sunday. With host Jose de Valon '38, a Boston businessman, he went sight-seeing and visited B.C. Sunday and toured M.I.T. yesterday morning. He left by plane for Washington last night...
Nothing Is Simple. The people in Golding's work are not so much characters as beings. Somehow, they are elevated above their existence in the commonplace world into a region where nonpractical life is led; behind the plane surface lies another dimension. On the level of social comedy, Miss Dawlish, Oliver's music teacher, is a Margaret