Word: abortment
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Giant Parachute. Things were not "real good" again until after the decision was made to abort the mission...
...Hour Trip. Not all solar flares are accompanied by dangerous proton outbursts, and the solar patrol will have to take care not to set off a false alarm that might unnecessarily abort a costly Apollo mission. But on the basis of past observations, the patrolmen know that if a flare is large and bright enough, if it is located close enough to a sunspot and is the source of strong radio signals over a wide range of frequencies, its appearance almost always heralds a hail of high-energy protons...
...work. On top of that, the syndicates exercise a censorship that is breathtaking. When Dale Messick included a Negro girl among a group of teenagers in Brenda Starr, the syndicate rubbed her out for fear of offending Southern readers. When Milt Caniff used the Air Force slang word abort (to cancel) in Steve Canyon, the syndicate figured it came too close to abortion and changed it. In their own defense, the syndicates claim that newspaper editors are extremely touchy about reader reaction and demand immaculate strips. But as one indignant cartoonist puts it: "A syndicate editor reminds...
...preposterous last-reel countdown. He shoots it out with the Gestapo, slaughters scores of guards, finally pulls the switch that opens the doors that let out the light that serves as a signal to Allied planes. The bombardiers drop in their eggs just in time to abort an intercontinental missile called "the New York rocket," lifting off for parts unknown. In fact, Germany's underground rocket factory was never bombed. Operation Crossbow probably won't be so lucky...
...many ways it was not much of a flight. The F-111 is designed to fly about 3,500 miles at 1,600 m.p.h. at up to 60,000 ft. What it did was to go to 15,000 ft., achieve a top speed of 230 m.p.h., and abort after 21 minutes because its flaps, extended for takeoff, could not be retracted in flight because of "minor" mechanical failure...