Word: aloft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded to an unheard-of degree of technical precision. With the nation's self-confidence in tatters, its international prestige besmirched, the U.S. could do something wonderfully right...
...Year of the Classic Toy. Come Christmas morning, living rooms will be spread with some new variations on some old favorites: Lionel trains snaking around the tree, Barbie waving from her red Ferrari, G.I. Joe rappelling from the chimney with care. There will be Lego castles aloft by Christmas dinnertime, cabins carved of Lincoln Logs, and portraits etched on the Etch A Sketch. Even some new hits, like Lewis Galoob's Micro Machines, are souped-up successors to such staples as Matchbox cars. "All these toys have predictable long life," says Peter Harris, president of F.A.O. Schwarz in Manhattan, "while...
...Secret Service operations, the limousines run by the Army, the White House "airline" of Marine helicopters and Air Force One plus backup. The Huey helicopters will soon be replaced by a faster, sleeker model. The Boeing 707s will be upgraded to 747s for the staggering price of $391 million. Aloft, Bush may be safer and more comfortable than in his White House living room...
...made-for-television gesture, he held aloft a copy of Wednesday's Boston Herald, with a front-page headline description of the Massachusetts budget situation: "What a Mess." He accused Dukakis of "borrowing like mad" and "kiting checks...
...Soviet Union and the Cold War and the nuclear threat dominated everyone's horizon, with anxieties rising over the U-2 spy plane that the Soviets shot down on May 1, 1960, and the Soviets' launching of Sputnik 1 three years earlier. The rocket that took the satellite aloft punched a hole through American self-confidence and made education a central issue...