Word: surting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mediterranean. If Gaddafi should rise to the bait and try forcibly to counter any U.S. movement across his line in the gulf, a prime U.S. retaliatory target might be the SA-5 antiaircraft sites that recently became operational at an airfield south of the Libyan city of Surt. One complication in hitting the sites: an attack could result in casualties among Soviet technicians that man the antiaircraft areas. Nonetheless, both Secretary of State George Shultz, who has long yearned to "put Gaddafi back in his box," and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger reportedly have been angered at the Libyan's recent...
...pilots would undoubtedly defend themselves, as in 1981, when they knocked down two Libyan jets over the gulf after one had opened fire. But targets within Libya also look tempting to some U.S. strategists. One is an expanding military air base, nine miles south of the coastal city of Surt, where intelligence satellites show construction of twelve Soviet SA-5 ground-to-air missile sites. Another potential target is a nuclear-reactor project being built along the coast with Soviet help. A dangerous complication: the reactor and the batteries may both be tended by Soviet advisers...
Clark escaped mostly because his car was too slow. Driving a new model Lotus-Climax that had been wrecked last April and practically rebuilt from scratch, Jimmy was having engine trouble, was running on only seven cylinders. After four sputtering laps, a mechanic waved a message board that read "Surt -20." With 16 laps to go, Ferrari's John Surtees already had a 20-sec. lead...
...Surt, Why naught?" assented Puey. "I'm game." He coughed...