Word: torpedoes
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...apparent that too many of the nation's leaders have failed to recognize that the risks of nuclear war will not be abated by a continuing and sometimes witless expansion of the nuclear arsenal, or an attempt to torpedo arms control negotiations before they start. The risks of war can only be diminished by a mutual willingness on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to make together concessions that will increase the security of each. The Soviets claim that they are willing and eager to conclude new SALT negotiations. The time has come for the United...
...information was passed to the West Germans, who signaled Paris of their intention to seek Abu Daoud's arrest and extradition. The DST's failure to inform higher-ups led some to believe that pro-Israeli officials in the DST and other ministries were out to torpedo the pro-Arab government of Giscard...
...David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like form of a Shinto deity from Japan's Kamakura period (12th-14th centuries)-a courtier, oddly clownlike in his peaked cap and baggy pants, but carved with a reductive formal elegance that might have inspired Brancusi seven centuries later. All its shapes are circumscribed by the block; one could...
...crew were spartan by U.S. standards, the sub itself was skillfully designed for silent running, and construction details showed that the Russians "can turn these things out like Mexican fritters," as one Navy expert put it. Before the sub was retrieved, the U.S. knew almost nothing about Soviet torpedo technology. The Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly one of the warheads was exploded underground...
...approach?), builders are renovating them and turning them to new uses. The process-alas, called "recycling" in current jargon-has caught on across the U.S. In Salt Lake City trolley-car barns now house an entertainment center; a Cleveland power plant has become a theater; what was once a torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va., is an arts center...