Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out, was somewhat more urgent than Fahmy's. The U.S., after all, is Israel's principal friend and chief armorer. According to reports from Jerusalem, Washington is not only replacing planes and tanks Israel lost in the war but has also provided antitank weapons and new "smart bombs," such as the Walleye and the Rockeye, that the Israelis have never had before. At the same time, however, President Nixon had pressed so vigorously for a cease-fire that his actions rekindled latent Israeli fears of an imposed settlement. Mrs. Meir had come to Washington to find...
Some basic questions have already been raised by experts about conventional ideas of how to deploy armor and airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding...
...anxious because he hopes to rise in the Mob and cannot afford to have a lot of blood spilled on his turf. He is guilty because he believes in Catholic hellfire. These hang-ups also cause him to behave abominably to his girl (Amy Robinson), who is smart and pretty but no hit with his uncle, the Godfather, because she is also an epileptic...
...better team in front of him. Kidder must have been unbearably tempted to play goal as Messing had, to move easily in the crease and depend on sheer coordination to stop the ball. But there was absolutely no way Kidder could have been an ersatz Messing, and he was smart enough to know it. In fact, it is Kidder's brains in general that have made him into a great goalie, a better goalie than Shep Messing...
...Israelis also had available a small number of American-made Mavericks, one of the "smart" bombs first used in Viet Nam. Carried aboard a fighter-bomber, it has a small TV lens and computer in its nose. The pilot can fix the target (usually a tank) in his sights, and lock onto it. The Maverick will then hit the target even if the at tacking plane takes evasive maneuvers or leaves the area. About 200 more Mavericks are being shipped to the Israelis in the current U.S. airlift...