Word: steams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highest readiness status, and there are frequent alerts. Some crews in fully armed planes are able to take off within five minutes. Others on 15-and 30-minute alerts wait in the ready room prepared to dash to their aircraft. On a typical day, each carrier's steam-propelled catapults launch 90 sorties. Some warplanes, such as the Mach 2.4 F-14 Tomcat, make combat runs, dropping practice bombs on targets towed by U.S. ships. Others, like the RF4 Phantom, fly reconnaissance missions. Confronting Task Force 70 is a Soviet flotilla of about ten guided missile cruisers, destroyers...
...outrage that a boycott of the 1980 Olympics is even being considered. The U.S. athletes work under their own steam, without Government aid, toward the biggest achievement in sport, and now the Government wants to use them as a weapon. What could be more unfair...
...being an artist. His is not an easy life; some of the violent incidents from life in Belfast still linger in his head, coiling around that field where he cultivates his poetry. But in Field Work, Seamus Heaney advances beyond the political bog. His acres breathe, and his road steam...
...Milton Friedman flew to Chile to lobby for their panaceas. On his own steam, unpaid by the Chilean government, Harberger gave speeches and interviews in Chile to publicize his views. He has more than a little of the crusader...
...vision of Lana Turner. "Rock 'n' roll is about rhythm and movement," she reminds us, then supplies a footnote on anatomy: "Your sex is very close to your heart. It's got to be a total piece." If the biology is inaccurate, one listen to a steam-heated Foley vocal performance like We Belong to the Night makes such a consideration seem irrelevant...