Word: railings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...systematically as if conducting an orchestra. Four stories up on the ship's signal deck, Chief Signalman Mike Kennedy took note. While others ogled the U.S.O. dancers on the dock, he broke out a small pair of blue and white pennants, known as papa flags, and returned to the rail. In his hands, the flags began to speak back. Before the final lines were secure, Kennedy had invited retired Senior Chief Signalman Graham and his wife aboard to share a cup of coffee in the cramped signal shelter of the most famous American battleship ever built...
...three-year-olds: 14 confessed drug users (of one kind or the other lately permissible), a British chestnut addicted only to Guinness Stout (a pint a day with his oats and carrots) and that California fresh-air fiend Ferdinand. For all of his clean living, Ferdinand drew the dreaded rail, and the pinch at the start of the stampede was so precariously tight that Shoemaker had to stand virtually straight up in the irons. With every one of his 96 lbs., he yanked in the reins magnificently to hold Ferdinand on the course. They settled down into last place...
Garlits and his competitors build and drive a class of dragster known as the top fueler--rail thin, about 20 ft. long, with big, sticky rear wheels and a high wing in back. Behind the driver, the engine throws flame from its exhaust headers and makes a noise that starts like a garbage truck under heavy gunfire and increases rapidly to an apocalyptic roar. "It'll blow your nose for you," one fan declares...
...heart of their nuclear arsenal. By the mid-1990s, these weapons will be either ensconced in "superhardened" underground silos or based on mobile platforms that are difficult to locate and target. Even the large, multiple-warhead SS-X-24 missile, says SMP, will be deployed first on mobile rail cars, possibly by late this year. The U.S. has only been studying the possibility of developing a mobile missile, the single-warhead Midgetman...
Kennedy also advocates reducing postal subsidies and eliminating long-distance Amtrak subsidies, which he has said support the "nice romantic idea" of cross-country rail travel with few real benefits to the country...