Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...building last week were amazed to see, high above them, Professional Stuntman Daniel Goodwin, 25, decked out in the bright red-and-blue costume of that nimble comic-book hero. With 40-m.p.h. winds whipping around him and 50 Ibs. of climbing equipment on his back, Goodwin made the ascent in some 7½ hrs. He hoisted himself on metal hooks that he wedged into the slots designed to hold window-washing scaffolds. When one of those scaffolds was placed in his path, Goodwin simply moved sideways, grabbing suction cups that he placed on the windows. Said he: "There...
...stranger to overcoming adversity, something he did daily, and spectacularly, in the Marines. "I committed myself to them. I made people sick, I was so meticulous. I played their game, and kept getting meritorious promotions." After only two years--on a virtually unprecedented ascent in the Marines--he became a sergeant...
Parked on the desert, Columbia had a decidedly unwarlike look. It survived its journey in remarkably fine style. A dozen or so of its 31,000 heat-shielding tiles had come unstuck during the thunderous ascent. But during its glowing, 2,700° F plunge through the atmosphere, a maneuver that has been likened to riding inside a meteor, not one was lost from the craft's underbelly. Only a few tiles were gouged and chipped, apparently by pebbles and other desert debris kicked up by the wheels after touchdown. After an initial going-over at Edwards Air Force...
Days and years spent in places like those inspired the Bean line, or at least most of it. The parentage still shows--in the lobby of the store, a chalkboard announces upcoming special events. They include "Canoe Films Night," a talk on the woman's ascent of Annapurna, and a slide-illustrated lecture on the "Joy of Fly Fishing...
...stronger. His devotion to God, the Virgin Mary, the fruits of contemplation remained intact. His questioning of institutions increased. Though he kept his own will in check, he doubted a system that "constantly organized and marshaled [the young ones] this way and that." In his 1951 spiritual treatise, The Ascent to Truth, Merton had ingenuously defended the churchmen who silenced Galileo, and he had counseled other pioneers to be patient with ecclesiastical censors. Now he sharply questioned such blind obedience...