Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about their landing methods. Their early cosmonauts were apparently ejected when they neared earth; they landed by personal parachutes, letting the empty capsules hit the ground hard. At the ends of other flights, they seem to have stayed on board, as U.S. astronauts do, while the ships landed beneath bigger and better parachutes. Retrorockets have also been used to check a ship's speed as it nears the ground. The three-man spaceship Voskhod I used this method with great success. Its designers were so sure that the soft landing would work that they gave the crew no parachutes...
...Service, which was established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Collins' orders from Johnson were to head off trouble at all costs. He succeeded, for the time being. But in the arrangements to secure peace, it turned out that a lot of the principals' egos were bigger than their principles...
...decay rate is cut by about 65%. If we could apply all we know to all the people, we could cut that rate to less than 20%. But there aren't enough dentists to apply all the knowledge we have." Baltimore is doing its bit by planning on bigger classes. "The first class, in 1840, had five students," said Dean Salley. "Soon we shall admit 128 each year...
Some people are never satisfied-particularly investors. Though 20 million U.S. share owners seek their opportunity in the stock market and millions more are attracted to bonds and mutual funds, a growing number of investors are eager to take a bigger risk in the hope of making a faster buck. They are plunging into unconventional investments that offer such attractions as novelty, tax relief and, when the investor has guessed right, quick-rising profits...
U.C.L.A.'s defense will probably be a bigger problem for Princeton than Good rich's shooting. But the Tigers' ball-handling has improved a great deal since the Michigan debacle, and if things get too bad, Coach Bill van Breda Kolff can al-sides, Providence had one of the nation's best defensive teams, and look what Princeton did to them...