Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always, the defense was airtight. Mike Bishop led a defensive charge that dumped each of the Herald's six different quarterbacks in the end zone for safeties. Meanwhile, Steve Bussard and Scott Jacobs kept the airways quiet with their alert play in the secondary...
...airtight, watertight van is divided into a lounge, a galley and an area for sleeping and bathing. Meals will be passed into the van, through an air lock and prepared in a microwave oven in the galley. Air pressure inside the van will be lower than it is outside; if a leak occurs, the "negative" pressure will cause outside air to flow in, preventing organisms from escaping...
...Manned Spacecraft Center, the van will be rolled up to the Lunar Receiving Lab (LRL), an 83,000-sq.-ft., $15.8 million building designed specifically to house the astronauts and lunar samples during the quarantine period. After walking through an airtight plastic tunnel extended from the van, the Apollo crewmen and their two traveling companions will enter the astronaut-reception area, which occupies about a third of the laboratory. A dozen others -NASA physicians, technicians, a cook and a public relations man-will join them until the quarantine period ends...
This structural distortion must be eliminated, and the ABM seems like the best place to being. For if we succeed, as Senator McGovern says, "in building a theoretically airtight defense structure but in the process create the kind of allocation of resources that neglects our most acute internal, domestic problem, we may discover that we have built a shield around a value system that is no longer worth protecting...
...time was spent on the substantive issue of whether Fortas, and more particularly Thornberry, were good choices for the positions. That they were opposed by the Senate neanderthals, and that many of the attacks on Fortas were fatuous and petulant, seemed enough to make the case for their appointments airtight and inviolable...