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Word: sams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy jets from carriers wheeled around the city, pummeling warehouses, a huge truck park and nearby Kien An Airfield, where three MIG-17 fighters were destroyed on the ground. By the time the third attack had ended, the sky over Haiphong was streaked by the vapor trails of SAM missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence of troops is revealed by tiny air-dropped sensors no larger than a twig, including magnetic metal detectors and "people sniffers" that respond electronically to the smell of ammonia in urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Harrowing War in the Air | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...Senate hearings, they have told confusing stories and committed some incredible gaffes. The most memorable, perhaps, was Vice President William R. Merriam's explanation of why he ordered ITT's Washington files fed into a paper shredder after publication of the Dita Beard memo. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin remarked that "you could not destroy that memo because you did not have it." Merriam's reply: "No, that is right, but there might have been a lot of others in there like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: ITT's Big Conglomerate of Troubles | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Mayor Dundee, directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris and James Coburn. Lowell House, 8, 10:15, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 4/27/1972 | See Source »

After placing a classified ad in which he makes himself out to be a second generation Sam Spade, Eddie-somewhat to his astonishment-gets a call for a job. He shows up at a local hotel, where he picks up a package from a fat man who resembles Falcon's Kasper Gutman (the Sidney Greenstreet character). Inside the package are a sizable bundle of money and a pistol. Eddie is plunged into a plot as intricate and confounding as The Big Sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Private Eye Pastiche | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

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