Word: refueling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appropriate to October 1980. There was Jimmy Carter zipping from an S.R.O. press conference in Washington to Albuquerque, San Diego, and then back to the White House for a two-hour weekend phone-in that was broadcast by National Public Radio. Back in the capital barely long enough to refuel Air Force One, he will be off politicking again this week-in Kansas City, Chicago and Boston...
...mile, 35-minute trip. But then there was a delay: no equipment. Finally, at about 6 p.m., we got on a plane and joined a long line of other flights waiting to take off. Just as we reached the head of the line, the pilot said he had to refuel. At last, at around 7 p.m., we departed. But later, in midcourse, we veered left toward the Vineyard's neighboring island of Nantucket. Apparently our flight number was switched with that of the flight to Nantucket. So we landed there, stayed on the ground for a while, and then...
...Shah's loyalty to the U.S. Helms remembers that during the oil embargo of 1973, the Shah sent his emissaries to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to plead for a quick end. He kept Israel supplied with oil at that time. Once he secretly sent a tanker out to refuel an American carrier task force running low on oil in the Indian Ocean. In the closing days of the Viet Nam War, at U.S. request, he instantly dispatched a squadron of F-5s to Saigon. His planes and ships have patrolled the Strait of Hormuz for years, watching over...
Polillio did manage to refuel for one more spectacular score, a sparkling one-handed catch of a deflected Larry Brown pass late in the third quarter that went 32 yards for the gridders' final six points...
...what has this technology accomplished? In Barrett's dour view, it has enslaved us. William Blake's "dark Satanic mills" of the Industrial Revolution have brought forth even more hellish inventions to refuel the Western world's "frantic dynamism." Solzhenitsyn's Gulag, B.F. Skinner's proposals for a "technology of behavior" and the threat of nuclear holocaust complete a disastrous legacy...