Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masturbatory equivalent. Certainly the ability to take control of a situation relieves anxiety, and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when with the flick of a wrist he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with a Niagara of sound...
...Having taught so much with its failure, Gemini was able to demonstrate even more with its many successes. Within 94 minutes after their launch from Cape Kennedy, while they were still on their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little lunar excursion...
...obtain a sample for such a study, some scientists suggest, an unmanned spacecraft should be shot into the orbit of a regularly reappearing comet. The craft would rendezvous with the comet, land and scoop up some surface material. Then, after a brief, blazing ride through the sky, it would blast off for earth, bringing back a sample of the stuff the comet is made...
...Infantry Division ran into a hornets' nest last week. Assigned to secure Highway 16 for a supply convoy due to move through, elements of "the Big Red One" wandered unknowingly into a major Viet Cong troop concentration. It took the efforts of three full battalions to blast out the entrenched V.C., and much of the fighting was at close quarters-where accidents can happen...
...seven days in order to determine whatever variations exist in the moon's gravitational field. At the same time, the orbiter's systems will be checked out by transmitting pictures of the moon's previously unphotographed right edge. After the orbit has been determined, a blast from the spacecraft's 100-lb.-thrust engine is scheduled to lower it as close as 28 miles above the lunar surface. Then, zooming around the moon at a relative speed of 4,500 m.p.h. at its lowest point, the orbiter will snap its pay-dirt pictures during a week...