Word: alloy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a 16-year hiatus, which Fry has devoted largely to film scripts and translations of foreign plays. Sun serves as a reminder that his old acclaim and ostracism were both exaggerated. At their best, his plays strike a mean that, if not golden, is a highly polished alloy. Dramatically, he is neither as large nor as small a Fry as he has been taken...
...less than a minute, one of the service module's two spherical oxygen tanks was completely empty; nearly 320 Ibs. of supercold ( -297° F.) oxygen, a highly pressured mix of gas and liquid, had gushed out of the spacecraft, apparently through a rupture in its thin alloy skin. Looking out of his window, Lovell could see vapor streaming by. "We are venting something into space," he reported. "It's a gas of some sort." At the same time, the spacecraft began to pitch and roll in reaction to the violent expulsion...