Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year history. Of their first 14 games, they had won only three-and were only percentage points out of last place, 9 games behind the league-leading Baltimore Orioles. Yankee hitters were batting an embarrassing .210. Yankee pitchers had an unspectacular 3.82 earned-run average. And that once airtight Yankee defense had committed 16 errors...
...will be reduced to as little as a thousandth of what is allowed in clean rooms. At the same time, all of Voyager's exposed surfaces will be decontaminated with ethylene oxide, a colorless gas that is deadly to microorganisms. Finally, the spacecraft will be placed in an airtight, teacup-shaped canister and baked in a giant oven for as long as 53 hours at a temperature of 257° F.-enough heat exposure to kill even the organisms that live within the solid metals and other materials used in spacecraft construction...
Sealed Lid. There was nothing to be done. For hours after the blast, smoke made it impossible for rescue teams to search the silo. The explosion had cut off the power, making it impossible to open the 700-ton steel and concrete lid that seals the silo airtight. As flames devoured what little oxygen there was, several men tried to crawl into air-conditioning ducts. The elevator was stalled for lack of power, and the only way up was a single ladder. Trapped workmen piled onto it in panic, and two wedged themselves hopelessly together in one narrow section...
...habeas corpus hearing, the prosecution produced a stewardess who identified Mel as having been a passenger on the plane from Houston, and an ex-convict who said the pair had offered him $10,000 to murder Mossier. But to Circuit Court Judge Harvie DuVal, the case was not yet airtight: "The testimony I have heard and read does not meet the evidence requirements." Judge DuVal duly freed the defendants on $50,000 bonds. While Mel discreetly headed for Atlanta, Candace emerged from jail as other inmates showered her with hearty obscenities. Smiling and blowing kisses, the irrepressible widow jounced...
...chief Soviet space designer, a mysterious figure who is never identified, described his ship sketchily. To get out into space, he said, Leonov used an air lock, a chamber with airtight doors at both ends. When he crawled into it, Comrade Belyayev sealed the inner door tight, and Leonov presumably tested his space suit to see that it was working properly; then he cautiously loosened the outer door. Though it must have been rehearsed on earth over and over again, this was surely a moment of hideous crisis...