Word: sown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SPRING'S NADIR came at the May 22 march on the Pentagon. Called by an emergency coalition of major national antiwar groups immediately after the mines were sown, the action was seen as an attempt to duplicate the now-legendary 1967 march on the mammoth military headquarters. Even in the days immediately preceding the action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables went awry and its leadership quarreled divisively. After sparring...
...mines were sown in a random mix: some are acoustic (set to explode upon locking into the sound of a ship's engine), some are magnetic (reacting to steel hulls), while others are triggered by changing water pressure created by a ship's passage. Still other U.S. mines are "counters," which allow a number of ships to pass harmlessly overhead and then explode on, say, the tenth or 15th ship. Thus a Soviet trawler concentrating on clearing one type of mine would run the risk of being blown up by another variety...
MOST people envision underwater mines as the sort of studded black balls that Gary Grant dodged in Destination Tokyo. But the delayed-action mines used to seal off North Vietnamese ports last week are considerably more complex. Sown by low-flying Navy planes, some of them were dropped to the surface by parachute; others, equipped with tail fins, plunged straight to the water. Then they were programmed to settle at various depths in patterns designed to frustrate enemy minesweepers. Some were probably sent to the bottom while others were moored by cables. The mines used last week were...
...situation presents other legal complexities. A U.S. State Department official conceded last week that the Government could cite no precedent from other wars for its action, but he pointed out that the North Vietnamese have also sown mines. The most questionable aspect of the U.S. legal position is the lack of a declaration of war. Writing in 1967 in a military legal journal, Navy Captain Geoffrey E. Carlisle stated that "without a state of war, a blockade [of Haiphong] would be of doubtful legality. A similar analysis could be made with respect to mining harbors...
...require harsh cutbacks in facilities and personnel. Eliot House is sold to a hotel corporation and becomes the Sheraton Finley. Master Heimert, put on waivers, is picked up by Yale to be curator of their new Organic Food collection. ("Here's a man," says Kingman Brewster proudly, "who's sown his wild oats.") Senior Tutor Kevin Starr takes the vows and changes his name to Kevin Superstarr...