Word: maneuverability
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In World War II Soviet fighter pilots boasted of a maneuver called taran, i.e., ramming an enemy plane when ammunition was exhausted and parachuting out. In the absence of reliable witnesses of such tactics, Western air-force men were apt to suspect the Russians of "shooting a line." Last week...
Hong Kong is a battleground of Communists and anti-Communists who maneuver and plot and occasionally murder each other under the eye of a government that is alert to it all but prefers to pretend that none of it goes on. Hong Kong is the world's main door...
Since last August, when he shut down Colombia's leading newspaper, El Tiempo, Strongman-President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has been carrying on a clumsy feud with the country's traditionally free-swinging press. Last week Rojas discovered that he had stumbled again. His latest press-muzzling maneuver, an...
Mitropoulos, who usually conducts from memory, opened the score, apparently in deference to Oistrakh's nerves. The violin entered almost at once, spinning out a long, yearning melody in a rhythm that was at once syncopated and plodding. Violinist Oistrakh applied his tight, concise tone to it. He revealed...
Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, recent victor in a high E-flat free-for-all with an octet of Chicago process servers (TIME, Nov. 28), plunged a legal fork into an Italian macaroni company. On the tines of her suit: Maria's ex-physician and husband's...