Word: pontooned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most decisive new weapon in the Middle East fighting to date is the Soviet SAM6 surface-to-air missile, which had never before been used in combat. The Israelis encountered it on the Sinai front while their aircraft were attempting to knock out the pontoon bridges placed across the Suez Canal by the Egyptians. In the first two days of fighting, 40 Israeli planes were shot down near the canal, most of them by SAM6 batteries. The missile was equally devastating over the Golan Heights, protecting the Syrians from the foil fury of the Israeli air force and exacting...
Backed up by Soviet T-54 and T-55 tanks rumbling across the pontoon bridges, the Egyptians paused hardly at all, sweeping over Israel's vaunted Bar-Lev defense line anchored just beyond the east bank. They had obviously prepared well and arduously. "We trained for this mission for a long time," one wounded soldier told newsmen as he was carried back across the canal. "Each of us knew by heart what he was supposed...
...pontoon bridges were quickly knocked out by low-flying fighters of the Israeli air force, and just as quickly rebuilt. "They go up and they go down," said an Israeli officer charged with keeping them down. "I don't think Montgomery would have done it," said a Western officer who was following the war from the Arab side. "But if it involved some foolhardiness, it also involved a great deal of courage on the part of Sadat." As the attacking Egyptians pushed out onto the desert and Israeli troops fell back, Egypt poured two armored divisions and one mechanized...
...quantities, has no effect on goldfish at all. At the time I was even less interested in goldfish than in bridge (last spring I discovered a whole school of large and beautiful goldfish swimming in the Charles, a river I had thought was inhabited only by aquatic rats and pontoon bugs, and this increased my regard for goldfish to no end), so I went back to my own Hall, Pennypacker, without learning the experiment's conclusion, but nevertheless, suspected that despite the assistant dean's assurances, better experiments could be devised...
...Ruhr, 36, owner of a Minneapolis ad agency, lives a long commute?by Minneapolis standards?from his office. But he can make the 25 miles of freeway in 30 or 40 minutes, likes to point out that within an hour after leaving work, he can be sitting on his pontoon boat in the middle of White Bear Lake, enjoying a drink and watching the sun go down. He and his wife and two children live in a 1912-vintage five-bedroom house on the shores of the lake, with their own beach and dock. His wife's optometry business...