Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Change. But most U.S. scientists and space experts seemed unsurprised at Russia's feat, and not unduly dismayed. It represented no new breakthrough for Russian rocketry: having lifted Gagarin into single orbit and brought him back, the Russians needed only to use the same booster and capsule for Titov's longer flight. To scientists, the principal interest in Titov's voyage was the question of how he would stand up to the prolonged 25-hour period of weightlessness-the one condition of space travel that had yet to be duplicated, except momentarily, during ground experiments and training...
...breakthrough came in 1959 with the isolation of 6-aminopenicillanic acid, which is the hard core of all penicillin molecules. The new Penbritin is the first modification found to be active against a wider range of bacteria...
Through it all, Tony kept a stiff, smiling upper lip. His popularity took a turn for the better when he took an unpaid, five-day-a-week job in a design center, despite his rather nebulous assignment: studying methods of consumer product testing. But the real breakthrough came when Buckingham Palace let Tony present the prizes in a schoolboy photographic contest in London. Delighted to talk on a subject he knew intimately, Tony wrote his own speech, delivered it well. Afterward, reporters and cameramen whom he had known in his single days hesitantly gathered round. He broke royal family precedent...
...commands of statutes are disregarded by large groups of people, whether it be in the North, the East, the South or the West. This is not the rule of law, and lawyers should speak in a loud and clear voice. The time is ripe for a great breakthrough in the field of international public order. It may be, as some say, that it is impossible to find common interests among the nations upon which to build a public order. But our mutual interest in survival is a good starting point...
...unprecedented public revelation of jury room activity," crowed a handout by WBAL-TV, an NBC affiliate owned by the Hearst Corp. Raptured the Hearst-owned Baltimore News-Post: "A reportorial breakthrough of the traditional silence of the jury room." It sure...