Word: aloftness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed to be reused for as many as 55 flights, and to be throttled up and down, producing more or less power as needed...
Indeed, NASA has not sent a man aloft since July 1975, when three astronauts docked with two Soviet cosmonauts. Since then, manned spaceflight has been strictly a Kremlin monopoly. The Soviets have flown 19 manned missions, staying aloft as long as 185 days and performing numerous scientific experiments...
Weighing up to 50,000 tons apiece, solar satellites would have to be built in space itself, with materials carried aloft by a new generation of craft considerably larger and more powerful than the NASA space shuttle. Looking like great Erector Sets, the structures, about six miles long and three miles wide, would be made of long thin beams actually manufactured in space out of rolls of aluminum or carbon-fiber strips about as thick as the wall of a beer can. In the weightlessness of orbit, nothing stronger would be needed...
Chaos lurks in shots of Shingen's army. The soldiers on horseback carry lofty banners and spears and rifles and everyting's always criss-crossed. Blood-splotched bodies lie tangled in other bodies with banners still aloft. Spears sticking into...
...went next door to a half-completed mosque, where he frequently holds court in a cushioned, blue-draped chair on a balcony. Other students were already gathered there, segregated by sex, according to strict Islamic tradition. They welcomed their leader by chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and holding aloft Khomeini portraits. One of the militants stepped forward and read a prepared text. The Majlis decision, it declared, "does not mean the end of the conflict with America. As our Imam has said, we shall fight against world-devouring America until...