Word: buoyant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bermuda. But it wasn't at all maneuverable: it could only go straight down and straight back up again. Swiss engineer Auguste Piccard solved the mobility problem with the first true submersible, a dirigible-like vessel called a bathyscaphe, which consisted of a spherical watertight cabin suspended below a buoyant gasoline-filled pontoon. (A submersible is simply a small, mobile undersea vessel used for science...
...offensive petered out last week, and the buoyant hopes of the Sarajevans crashed to earth. In a matter of days, they had experienced an almost unbearable sequence of despair, euphoria and finally the immensely disheartening realization that it would take far more than a single battle to free their city from the Serbs' embrace. The story of Sarajevo in that period shows a city at the breaking point, bent cruelly back and forth...
...Apollo moon missions, from 1967 to 1972, provided cubic tons of melodrama, from the explosion of the Apollo 1 test module that killed three astronauts to Neil Armstrong's buoyant lunar stroll from Apollo 11. The apogee of American know-how and teamwork, the program could, at the flick of a wrong switch, careen from triumph to tragedy. In this job, success meant you forged the ultimate frontier; failure meant you died with the whole world watching...
...face." Like many women her age, Marten, 46, is being encouraged by her gynecologist to try hormone-replacement therapy. She's resisting, and yet, like so many women, she's sorely tempted. Her 80-year-old neighbor has been on estrogen since age 40 and is "so buoyant it's remarkable," says Marten...
Murphy, fresh off five successful seasons at the helm of Division I-A University of Cincinnati, never imagined that Joe Restic's sinking ship would become buoyant again in one season. But alumnae and students were quick to buy the Murphy Messiah metaphor and expected immediate returns...