Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...able to make a low orbital pass at an altitude of 90 miles and take extraordinarily detailed photographs, which give U.S. intelligence information on Russian and Chinese harvests as well as clues to secret weapon construction. On one mission over the Soviet Union, Big Bird snapped the make, model, wing markings and ground-support equipment of a group of planes stationed near Plesetsk, Russia's key military launch center. Exposed film is stored in six cannisters that are periodically ejected into the earth's atmosphere, descending by parachute toward a point in the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii...
...members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in full uniform. Most of those in the audience were elderly, conservative and already dead set against the canal pacts. Then it was on to St. Louis for a larger antitreaty crowd of 360 people and a dose of ripsnorting right-wing rhetoric. Said Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald: "This treaty is backed by the unholy alliance of Big Government, Big Business and Big Labor...
...remarks, may seem an exception to the dominance of politicians. But he was not drawn into most of his gaffes, indiscretions or overstatements by being caught off guard by a reporter's question. In his distaste for Nixon's rehearsed and calculatingly misleading utterances, Carter chooses to wing it, as if spontaneity proves the honesty of his intentions...
...Bruin pressure that began when they scored the tying goal with 5:33 left in the contest. Terry O'Reilly pushed home that goal, placing the puck between Plasse's legs and into the net with a soft shot after taking a pass from Mike Millbury on the left wing...
...Wales team got on the board in the last minute of the second period with a score by Toronto center Daryl Sittler. Buffalo wing Rick Martin tied the game with a shot off his own rebound with only 2:14 remaining in regulation...