Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention to the vicious personal attacks on the royal family. The people and the government take their own works too seriously to have time for this polemical nonsense, and the throne in Jordan has proved a symbol of unity and a source of faith that is far beyond the reach of any "repercussions...
...Navy "surface effect ship" that is actually a giant high-speed hydrofoil capable of a speed of 120 knots and able to cross the Atlantic from New York in 35 hours, reach Viet Nam from San Francisco in 72 hours. Powered by gas and turbine engines and traveling on cushions of air, the ship could quickly transport troops to trouble spots, be adapted as a high-speed aircraft carrier or as a moving platform for deploying anti-missile missiles and ICBM batteries at sea. Though the program is still in the model stage, the Navy believes that it can have...
...something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...
...deal with both on the ground and in space. NASA spacemen had theorized that once weightless in orbit, liquid hydrogen would scatter around its fuel tank in an uneven mixture of liquid and gas. And unless liquid hydrogen can be kept at the bottom of the tank, it cannot reach the valves through which it is pumped to the combustion chamber...
...cornered the market, but in the early 1960s it was nearly trampled by the consumer stampede to sponge rubber. Today the company, renamed Ozite Corp.,† is bounding back. Sales rose from $11.7 million in 1964 to $18.8 million last year, and are expected to reach $35 million in 1966. Earnings quadrupled to $892,000 along the way. Ozite's better mousetrap: indoor-out door rugs...