Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dynamic career has taken Pete McCloskey from Stanford Law School, through the Korean War, where he distinguished himself as a first-rate soldier, to a congressional victory over Shirley Temple Black, in 1967, and finally it has started him on the treacherous ascent to the presidency of the United States. Pete McCloskey has a lot of guts. Even he admits it may have cost him a political future...
...British expatriate was a most prolific writer. As H.F. Heard, he turned out first-rate detective stories (A Taste for Honey) and Orwellian chillers (The Great Fog). As Gerald Heard, he wrote such scholarly works on philosophy and religion as A Dialogue in the Desert and The Ascent of Humanity...
...into Endeavour and closing the hatch, Scott said wistfully: "The Falcon is back on its roost and going to sleep." In fact, it came to a thunderous end. After a brief flurry of concern because of a possible hatch leak, the astronauts cut loose the lunar module's ascent stage and sent it crashing back to the moon's surface 59 miles west of Hadley Base. Its impact jiggled all three of the nuclear-powered seismometers on the moon, including the new Apollo 15 instrument. Geophysicist Gary Latham of Columbia University was delighted...
...could not afford to look at the TV monitor himself. He had to go completely by the clock. At exactly T-minus-zero, Fendell had to begin tilting the camera upward. Thus, by the time his command reached the moon, the camera would-he hoped-follow Falcon's ascent stage until it drifted off the tube. Then, in order to bring it back into sight, Fendell would have to press an-other button precisely two seconds after liftoff, ordering the camera to pull back to a wide-angle view. Noting NASA's -and the public's-keen...
...presidency but a professor is not surposed to delegate his reading and writing (though, no doubt, some do). He is always fighting time, the great leveller. which will neither be extended nor compressed. Busymess is his true opium. In his Sisyphean labors, his merchandising of words, his endless ascent of unattainable peaks, it seems to me that he has lost touch not only with his students and his fellow men but with his own humanity.Program on Technology and Society