Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tests down to 31 degrees, and a small heater installed at each joint, just in case. Another is a "capture latch," a metal lip containing an added O ring, which would force escaping gas to turn an extra corner and lose momentum. The maximum distance that joints can pull apart under the stress of launch will be reduced from the current one thirty-thousandth of an inch to one-fifth that figure. A "vulcanized, rubbery substance" will replace the putty that now fills the gap as a sealant...
...foregone conclusion. There was even a deadline of sorts. The 22 conferees began their meetings in July under an agreement that they would try to finish by Aug. 15. They were afraid that if they did not have a deal by then, the whole bill would be picked apart by a swarm of lobbyists who would descend on Senators and Representatives back home during the three-week recess...
...legislation that would endanger bilingual ballots, educational programs, emergency services and television programming, all of which aid immigrants, especially the elderly, to adjust to an English-speaking soci- ety. It could also, warns Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, "stir hatred and animosity. It could tear us apart as a people...
...experience," Marge was saying just before her most recent annual recital. "He won't be playing tonight. He has a lovely touch -- such big hands -- but an audience just destroys him." His only time on the stage, this fellow fell apart. "He stayed here all day practicing. He had a Valium. Then he called the doctor. Then he had three more Valium and two double shots." As show time neared, this musician stepped out the kitchen door to relieve himself. Marge had to stop the proceedings and find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home...
...Miller rewrote the show, and last week Britain's National Theater gave it a handsomely designed, intelligently acted and altogether persuasive production -- not a revival, because in content, style and spirit this Clock amounts to new work. It is a robust, expressionistic celebration of a time that tore America apart yet paradoxically brought it together, an all but unique moment when millions of individual experiences coalesced into a collective national experience...