Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vital Difference. Basically, FOBS can pack the punch of some ICBMs-with a vital difference. Shot into a low orbit of 100 miles, the FOBS rocket slows and ejects its nuclear bomb before completing its route around the globe. This combination would prevent anti-ballistic missile radar (BMEWS), presently the U.S.'s main screen against surprise attack, from ascertaining the point of impact until the rocket "deboosts"-about three minutes and 500 miles from target. By contrast, the U.S. now has a 15-minute warning against ICBMs. Experts say that the Soviet FOBS could carry the maximum payload equivalent...
Without Crim, the Crimson will lack inside punch. With this situation and with Zimmerman's new-found throwing arm, Harvard could be relying on passes to penetrate the strong Tiger defense...
...normally powerful scoring punch of Solomon Gomez and peter Bogovich was stymied by a virtually eleven man defense put up by the UConns. Harvard's coach Dana H. Getchell '53, asked about such tactics, commented, "there's nothing in the rule book that says you can't use it." His team has faced such fall-back methods since the second game of the year with M.I.T. The reason for Connecticut's relative success was, in Getchell's opinion, the advantage of playing on their home field...
Lyndon Johnson sent a covered vermeil punch bowl. Charles de Gaulle gave a porcelain and bronze table, Queen Elizabeth a gold-plated fruit basket, Indira Gandhi a silver miniature of New Delhi's minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil...
...going for them that were as pretty as bright-leaf tobacco: their cigarette business is holding up despite recurring cancer scares, and they are making money on diversification projects. R. J. Reynolds reported record sales of $495 million and record earnings of $43,139,000 from Chinese foods, fruit punch, and aluminum foil as well as tobacco products. P. Lorillard's diversified operation accounted for record quarterly sales of $147 million and earnings...