Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held its breath when Alan Shepard led the way into space. It suffered anxiety as Gus Grissom swam for his life in the Atlantic. It thrilled to the historic adventure of John Glenn. Now, as Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 37, a wiry, laconic Navy lieutenant commander, hurtled three times around the earth, there was interest, but little of the intense excitement that had focused on previous flights. The nation seemed to be getting sophisticated about space travel-until, at the end, a harrowing, wildly suspenseful 57 minutes showed just how thin the veneer of sophistication...
...alarm from their instrument consoles. Five agonizing seconds passed. Then Carpenter, finally realizing what had gone wrong, reached up and fired the retrorockets manually. Says one man who was in the Canaveral control center: "When those retros fired, you could hear some loud sighs, people letting their breath out, and a 'thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another danger: Carpenter's manual fuel tank...
Well, outside the people are worrying whether they must spend the rest of their lives holding their breath because someone, in anger or in lunacy, may start throwing around some of these genocidal devices...
However, these last 100 replies are always the most unpredictable and usually have a higher percentage of rejections, he pointed out. "But, we'll be watching the mail with bated breath from...
...mistress, and away from the plaza, she always seemed to him to be the better twin of boredom. When he retired in 1935, he was king of the world's matadors, more than a millionaire, a hero in his native Spain, spoken of in the same breath with Cervantes and Goya. But life grew dull as it grew safer. When a friend told him he had no choice but to die tragically, his answer held no other hope. "I'll see what I can do," Belmonte said...