Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful throwing arm...
...launch, the two aluminum arms were folded against the satellite's side. As the solid-fueled third stage was about to fire some 150 miles above the earth, they snapped out into position. Each arm branched in two directions and each branch carried a flat paddle about the size of a checkerboard, covered with 2,000 silicon-based solar cells mounted on a thin plastic honeycomb (an elaboration of the light-collecting window in Vanguard I, which still draws in enough energy to keep the tiny satellite busily broadcasting 17 months after it was launched). At 22,000 m.p.h...
Raising his arm for silence, Nixon shouted back: "My wife and I want to thank the people of Novosibirsk for your very warm welcome." There was a sharp burst of applause, and a few sentences later, when Nixon wound up his impromptu speech with the wish, "May Novosibirsk grow as big as Chicago," security men were hard put to rescue him unbruised from a rib-crushing onsurge of Siberians determined to shake his hand...
When Perez came home, the police were waiting. At headquarters, the full, incredible story came out. A bitter, unbalanced man who had lost his left arm in a train accident, Rafael Perez did not believe in God, or doctors, or much of anything else. His first child was named Son of the Sun, and when the baby fell sick with dysentery, Rafael told his wife: "Nature will cure the baby." Son of the Sun died. A year later, Evolution of the World was born-to die soon after for lack of medical attention. When the next child, a girl named...
Cutting the Roll. Once in the swim, Yamanaka set out to compete in earnest. By the 1956 Olympic Games, he was a 17-year-old novice who rolled like a canoe in white water, because his left arm curved too far under his body. But he still had enough raw power to place second in the 400 meters (4:30.4) and second in the 1,500 meters...