Word: atop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camp is mandatory: one night a squad of North Vietnamese crept up, neatly cut a passage through for future use, and replaced it to look as though nothing had been disturbed. Each day, as they wait, the Marines dig in deeper, filling shiny grey sandbags and adding more layers atop their bunkers, preparing for the inevitable moment when Giap makes the ultimate test of Khe Sanh's defenses...
Launched by the same Saturn I rocket atop which the fatal Apollo fire occurred last year, the LM was protected on its flight through the atmosphere by a nose cone and a cone-shaped adapter. After the second stage had been inserted into orbit, the nose cone was jettisoned and the adapter's four panels slowly opened like the petals of a flower, exposing LM to its natural environment: the vacuum of space, in which it can fly as efficiently as a streamlined rocket. Then, on command from LM's on-board computer, the craft briefly fired...
...forced to return to the orbiting mother ship, controllers again fired the descent engine. While it was burning, they also fired the 3,500-lb.-thrust ascent engine, which will be used to lift the astronauts off the surface of the moon. Blasting its flame directly into a depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from the descent stage. In one final burn, controllers fired the ascent engine for 6½ minutes before its fuel supply ran out. Because...
...group of overeager young in evidence on many campuses." They act, he said, on "the assumption, which they invariably call their 'analysis,' that Western society, and especially American society, is rotten through and through." These "Walter Mittys of the left," declared Pusey, "...fancy themselves rising to positions of command atop the debris as the structures of society come crashing down." He blamed the Dow sit-in at Harvard last October on "some few" students who "managed not only to move the demonstration inside the building, but also to maintain there something very like a state of siege for more than...
...wind atop Mount Washington is singing "Romney's right...