Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Free fall. Psychologists freed minds from guilt. Vatican II freed the church from its past. Drugs too proffered self-fulfillment. In the 1980s experimental engineers would see if the body could be freed from genetic dictates. With organ transplants, can one be free of mortality? Break the sound barrier, the color barrier, the four-minute mile. Rockets, free of gravity, shoot into space, land men on the moon?a demonstration of both organizational and individual will. The professional athlete becomes the free agent. Free Angela. Mr. Middle Class wishes to free himself from home, wife, children...
...week of stunning, swift disaster in China. Nearly a million Communist troops along a 400-mile front poured across the broad Yangtze, Nationalist China's last great defensive barrier, and swept government positions aside like puny earthworks in a raging tide. In four days they took Nanking, cut off Shanghai, and captured half a dozen cities...
...star Screenwriter-Pop Novelist William Goldman. In his recent book Adventures in the Screen Trade, he notes that structurally Wolfe's book is really two books. One is about the fighter jocks turned test pilots, led by the legendary Chuck Yeager, the first man to break the sound barrier. A natural pilot who graduated without benefit of a college degree from a World War II ace into test flights, Yeager, with his peers, established the exacting, unspoken standards (and style) of test flight in the late '40s. The second book is about the men who came afterward, whose...
...picture tells the story of the Mercury astronaut program, which trained seven men to be America's first explorers in space. It is big (more than three hours long), expensive ($25 million) and sprawling (covering 15 years of aviation history, from the breaking of the sound barrier in 1947 to the lift-off of the last Mercury capsule in 1963). It ranges from Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club (a raffish test-pilot bar at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert) to the Kennedy White House; from Lyndon Johnson asnarl in his limousine to the deep...
Both men said they believe the settlers' vulnerability stems from the language barrier and their mistrust of police, who in their homelands were often corrupt and actually viewed as an enemy. While the two denied any evidence of a political "backlash" against the Indochinese by Americans, Hartry attributed the local troubles to possible indignanace by "older immigrants" who arrived earlier in the century, when no federal programs existed for anyone, least of all newcomers. Nowadays, he explained, many Americans are voicing disapproval of the "very significant welfare dependency of Indochinese and all refugees...