Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignition, nothing that TV says or does can re-create the waves of sound that actually buffet the ears, chest and gut of the spectator. The slowness of lift-off contrasts incredibly with the acceleration into flight. The head goes back, hands are raised to block out the sun, tears of relief and perhaps pride fill the eye. The sense of brute power boring an escape hole through the atmosphere is heightened by a sudden realization that one is being left behind. The earth itself seems to be dropping away as fast as the wingless rocket is accomplishing the completely...
...hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender telephone the news. But in the 1960s the time had come for Verne's idea. With it came a population of 250,000, cinder-block subdivisions, all the effluvia of a boom town and, last week, a million guests in a carnival atmosphere...
...their suits, the astronauts will be effectively prevented from contaminating the atmosphere. When they inhale, air will be drawn into their BIGs through a one-way valve; the air they exhale will be vented through a biological filter designed to block the passage of tiny organisms. Conversely, the frogman will be protected by a biological filter to screen the air that he inhales. Some scientists fear that these elaborate precautions-and those that follow-could be negated during the two brief intervals when the Apollo hatch is opened; alien organisms inside the spacecraft could take these opportunities to escape into...
...massive crisis" in public health. If so, the national malady does not seem to be of undue concern to the American Medical Association. At the A.M.A.'s semiannual convention last week in Manhattan's Coliseum, the members came equipped with the usual bag of proposals to block "socialized medicine." It was not to be business as usual, however. Just after the predominantly white, middle-aged doctors had joined in a 30-minute tribute to the flag, a strident group of young medical students, doctors and nurses burst into the hall, chanting "Hip, hip Hippocrates, up with service, down...
During the question and answer period, Dr. Gallagher was asked about the weeks of silence and on the failure to implement the fourth and fifth demands. Words became heated. Then Dr. Gallaher stated that he had to leave. A dozen students moved to block the door, but he was too quick for them. In a flash, he was gone...