Word: rocketted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...completing the treaty's remaining 5%, that will require what U.S. diplomats call "end game trade-offs." One major example is the deadly accurate cruise missile, which the U.S. developed to offset ominous Soviet advantages in rocket size and power. Moscow had insisted that SALT II impose a 1,500-mile-range limit on cruises launched from planes; this would keep much of the Soviet Union beyond the weapon's reach. In September, however, the Russians indicated that they would drop this demand if a strict 360-mile ceiling were placed on the range of cruises fired from the ground...
...soon ensue, copiously, capaciously and loquaciously. Most are raised - and why not? - to Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words the F.F. learns is kan-pei! Bottoms up! (literally, dry glass). Several hosts between toasts indicate that it is inadvisable to take only a sip of the rocket juice. "You have to drink in one gulp," advises one Responsible Person. "Otherwise you get headache...
Because they flood the U.S. with everything from Sony TVs to nimble Kawasaki cycles and buy so little in return, the Japanese alone account for 40% of the nation's appalling trade deficit, which this year will rocket to a record $33 billion. In response to repeated American pleas for easier access to markets in the land of Hitachi and Datsun, the Japanese reply reproachfully: "But we are ready and eager to buy your goods. It is your fault for making no effort to sell to us." Last week a group of 100 U.S. businessmen, headed by Texas Instruments...
...that Kansas City will open the series with the survivor of the Yankees-Red Sox slugout at Royals Stadium, where they have won 55 games and lost only 24. The field is richly carpeted with Tartan Turf. On this artificial greensward, ground balls that would be easy outs elsewhere rocket past chagrined infielders. The Royals play their rug like so many home-town pool sharks fleecing visiting marks from the big city. Says Designated Hitter Hal McRae: "In this park, we don't drop a big bomb on people, we just run them all over the place...
Reggie Smith's rocket throw from right which held Phillie leadoff hitter Mike Schmidt to a single on a blast off the wall in the first, and Garry Maddox's baserunning blunder in the seventh guaranteed the shutout...