Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, the Israelis finally explained the disastrous Abu Zabal bombing as "an incredible coincidence." The pilot was approaching the target at high speed and evading antiaircraft fire when his radar bombsight failed. While seeking his target visually, he saw reference points-an Arab village, long, low buildings, sand dunes and a road intersection -that looked exactly like those he had been told to look for as he approached a military base at Khanka. Actually, they were identical to features in Abu Zabal, two miles away from the intended target...
...might. No country has a stronger franchise on the future than Japan. No developed nation is growing faster. Its economy quadrupled in the past decade, and will triple again in the next. Powered by a boomu (the word is a typical Japanese neologism) that has been picking up speed for a full ten years, Japan whistled past Britain in gross national product in 1967, then France in 1968. Last year it surpassed West Germany. With a G.N.P. that is expected to reach $200 billion this year, Japan now ranks third in the world, be hind only the U.S. ($932 billion...
...other Asians are uneasy at the speed, the size and the cost of the invasion. They tend to play down or overlook Japan's growing aid to the area. Tokyo is paying out $1.5 billion in World War II reparations, has given $220 million to the Asian Development Bank, and has lent $100 million to the World Bank. Japan's foreign aid, most of which goes to other Asian countries, totals $1.4 billion this year, second only to the U.S.'s $1.8 billion. The figure that most concerns Asians, however, is Tokyo's huge trade balance...
...expression is "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei," the four deities of the drugged society. Christ and Marx, O.K. Wei is a mischief-making Oriental seer who appears in the book. But who's Wood? The author has hinted that he made Wood up. But could it possibly be Speed-Reading Guru Evelyn Wood, who has, after all, taught millions to read by waving their fingers over the text...
...stood looking at each other: occasionally Jim Abbott would grunt, I would snarl. Then with lightning speed. I grabbed him and threw him to the ground. I was about to pin him. but decided to let the match continue. After all, I was only a CRIMSON sports-type: I had to think about the morale of the wrestling team...