Word: shrike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Israel's air-to-ground missiles are also formidable examples of Star Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
Langguth wastes little time trying to decide whether Saki was a literary butterfly who finally tried to stamp or some kind of shrike with a sense of humor. The book notes the Waugh-like gift for comic names (Loona Bimberton, Septimus Brope), the Wildean wit, the Wodehousean way with the featherheaded fauna of the West End and the country house party, the surprise endings self-consciously borrowed from O'Henry...
DIED. Katherine ("Ketti") Frings, 61, versatile novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose film credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; of cancer; in Los Angeles...