Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficulties will begin with the rocket launching. The acceleration pressure of 8 g. [eight times gravity's pull] will make breathing difficult. His respiratory muscles will strain to overcome the crushing force, and breathing will become irregular. The heart will double its normal rate. The instruments before his eyes fade from view in a brown haze. The feet and arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns...
Sale of tickets to members of the University will begin today at 23 Everett St. The Forum is now receiving mail orders, and public sales will begin Tuesday at the Coop...
Meanwhile, however, Navy was begin- ning its own offensive fireworks, scoring two runs in the home-half of both the first and the second innings. The count remained 4-3 until the fifth, when Navy pushed across three more tallies...
WASHINGTON, April 15--Prime Minister Fidel Castro arrived here tonight to begin a 10-day speaking tour of the United States. A crowd of approximately 200 Dominican exiles and Cuban supporters held aloft flags and cheered his arrival...
Recalling his OSS work, Ford says that "until I'd had this experience, I'd never thought of coming to Harvard." Discharged in March, 1946, he entered the GSAS in the fall. Even today he jokes about the "danger that OSS would begin to look like a Harvard colony...