Word: refuelers
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...ordered Claussen to refuel in Cyprus and again at Zagreb; over the plane's intercom he announced the purpose of "Operation Munich": to free the imprisoned Black September trio and fly them to a friendly Arab country. By the time the 727 reached Zagreb, the West Germans were on full alert, and government officials had agreed to release the prisoners in exchange for the passengers and the plane. After taking on fuel, the plane left Zagreb and headed for Germany. Munich's Riem Airport was surrounded by policemen, border troops, armored cars and thousands of Bavarian Sunday drivers...
...case in point occurred only days after Okinawa ceremonially changed hands. Three Guam-based B-52s were unable to refuel in mid-air on a bombing run to Viet Nam because of weather conditions in the western Pacific. They were diverted to Okinawa's Kadena A.F.B., where the big bombers were based until last year. Aware of Japanese sensitivity, the U.S. embassy in Tokyo alerted Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda about the new flight plan of the B-52s; thus Fukuda was able to break the news of an "unavoidable emergency" that forced the planes to land on Okinawa...
...uranium isotope, when struck by a hurtling neutron, does not break apart as does U-235. Instead, it absorbs the particle and is transmuted, by 20th century alchemy, into fissionable plutonium. Thus the breeder's fertile material is gradually converted to plutonium, which can eventually be used to refuel the parent breeder and other reactors...
...warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves and add to the storm's fury by drawing still more moisture from...
...ECONOMY. "Those whose guns-and-butter economics led us into an inflation that has robbed the purse of every person in the nation continue to call for the kinds of programs and spending that will only refuel that inflation...