Search Details

Word: missileã (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

North Korea’s recent attempt to launch its Kwangmyongsong-2 three stage booster rocket—which many experts have described as a civilian adaptation of its Taepodong-2 ballistic missile??should serve as a reminder of the unstable international security environment in Northeast Asia. Although the test itself was a failure—according to the New York Times, U.S. Northern Command and Japan’s Ministry of Defense, the missile fell apart in the Western Pacific—North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and its already extant launch capability should...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: From Pyongyang, With Love | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...larger celebratory package, in a sense.” But to many of the spectators, the “wall” wasn’t the only suspect-looking item to emerge during Yale’s halftime show: there was also the giant “missile?? that tore down the “wall.” “When I initially heard about the suspension, I thought it was as a result of that giant, ugly, penis-like thing that tore down the wall,” said Duncan...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Band Punished for Half-Time Show | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Back then, Nira Schwartz, an engineer at TRW, alleged that there were major flaws with the missile??s sensors which prevented it from collecting data about the right target. Schwartz alleged that TRW withheld this information from the government...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Missile Defense Contract Under Fire | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

...Commission, she reportedly asked to revise her previous statement that “I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile??a hijacked airplane as a missile.” That pillar of her case that nothing could have been done better by the administration soon crumbled, after critics pointed out that a madman tried to fly a plane into the White House in 1994, that the Pentagon...

Author: By Peter P.M. Buttigieg, | Title: Parts of Speech | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

| 1 |