Word: aloftness
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...brand-new, high-tech business blasted off in the U.S. last week: satellite launching. Martin Marietta, which manufactures Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, signed an agreement with Federal Express to send aloft its ExpressStar communications satellite in 1989. President Reagan had opened the way for the new industry last month, when he an- nounced that NASA will drastically reduce the number of commercial cargoes carried aboard the space shuttle...
...ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...
Talk about the high expectations of new parents. On the morning that Eva Burrows was born in an Australian mining town, her father, a Salvation Army officer, was conducting a worship service. Within minutes the father returned to his home, held the newborn baby aloft and uttered a prayer dedicating her to the glory of God and the salvation of the world. "It was rather a tall order for a little baby," says Burrows with a grin...
...perfect landing. Rutan, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, could be excused for being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record of 84 hours aloft and a 1962 mark of 11,337 miles in a closed circuit...
...winning goal. Nobody seemed happier about Diego's underemployment than Diego himself. "Today we showed that Argentina is much more than Maradona," he burbled after the 3-2 victory, when as captain he had made the obligatory triumphant circuit of the stadium on the shoulders of his admirers, bearing aloft the 11-lb. gold trophy. "Maradona is only part of the team...