Word: attached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his EVA, Gordon will attach one end of a 100-ft. Dacron tether to Gemini 11, then float over to attach the tether's other end to the Agena. With hatch closed, the crew will back off until the tether is taut, then try to create artificial gravity within the spacecraft by twirling it, like a bucket at the end of a line. The 100-ft. hobble may also prove to be an efficient method of stationkeeping with the Agena...
...civil rights struggle and has the technical and professional know-how that is indispensable in preparing other Negroes to pass through the doors now opening. At the CORE convention, middle-class Negroes were derided as ''black-power brokers," "handkerchief heads," and "Dr. Thomases" (Uncle Toms with attaché cases), and moderate Negro preachers like Dr. King were called "chicken-eating preachers...
When harmful material enters the body of a guinea pig, he said, the animal secretes at least two chemical antibodies, called gamma-1 and gamma-2. The gamma-2 molecule acts rapidly to attach itself to the walls of tumor cells. and with the aid of chemicals in the blood it breaks open the cell membrane, often killing the cancer...
...result, the cells become covered with thousands of gamma-1 molecules. Thus the other, more effective gamma-2 antibodies can find no place to attach themselves and are totally unable to act. With their coating of inactive gamma-1 antibodies, cancer cells feed, grow and spread...
They come in all sizes and shapes. Visors attach to the head via headbands or ribbons. Short versions just cover the eyes; full-face ones reach the mouth. Women like them because they keep hair in place, protect face from the sun and prying eyes. In fact, for the girl with a great figure but only passable face, they are an unbeatable combination. Let the men whistle: all they will see is the shadow of her smile...