Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things turned out, they need not have worried. By that late date, the only planes the shattered Japanese air force was able to supply the pilots were obsolete, Type 97 fixed-landing-gear crates in bad repair. Three of the pilots did eventually get off on Kamikaze missions. But one by one, the other nine on the flight from Ozuki were forced to ditch or crash-land. Except for one pilot who died in a crash, they were still waiting for replacement aircraft when the war ended three months later...
Only the Carronade was equipped with a fire-control computer, and it was soon beyond repair, owing to a lack of spare parts. Lieut. Commander Roy E. McCoy, 38, who runs the division from his Empire desk aboard the Carronade, quickly jury-rigged an alternative system, known as the "bow and arrow" method. Spotters ashore send target coordinates to the ships' Combat Information Centers, where men with aluminum ballistic slide rules (copied from a cardboard original found aboard one of the ships) swiftly tot up the deflection, angle-bearing and elevation of the rocket launchers. Then, just to make...
...happens, like some grand exercise in mass therapy, at 10 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month, nine months of the year. As the hour nears, the streets from Mecca to Marrakech grow strangely quiet. Groups of spade-bearded sheiks repair conspiratorially to their salons; workers jam the coffeehouses, and nomads huddle like crapshooters in their tents. As they listen to Um Kalthoum's tremulous voice, old men weep, women writhe on the floor, and the hashish smokers-whose purchases soar to monthly peaks just before the broadcasts-drift into glaze-eyed reverie...
...last September a state commission recommended that the Commonwealth buy all 12 acres of their repair yards and code as many as are needed for the library to the government...
...will probably take the MBTA two years, Lavin said, to find a new site for its repair yards and move its equipment. It is estimated that the library complex will not be completed until the end of the decade, though certain programs related to it are already operating. Many of President Kennedy's friends and associates are having their impression of the New Frontier tape-recorded as part of a project in oral history, and next year the Institute of Politics will begin bringing together scholars and men experienced in politics...