Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything seems all right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled by the moon into a 70-by 196-mile elliptical lunar orbit. Two revolutions later, a brief 10-sec. burn will change the path to a 70-mi.-high circular orbit. Traveling at 3,640 m.p.h., Apollo will circle the moon once every two hours. For 45 nerve-racking minutes during every revolution-when it is behind the moon and blocked from radio communication with the earth-it will...
...visage of his friend. "In the first place, he will not listen to me. He will continue to fight, anyway. In the second place, it is impossible for me without you, Alyosha. You sit inside me, and you will stay there. Therefore, do not sleep, Alyosha! Fight, Alyosha! Burn all the abominable meanness with which they want to keep turning eternally that damned machine against which you fought all your life...
...Rule or Burn. The move never came, but neither did Hussein's expected crack down. Instead, the king and the fedayeen leaders had a tense and angry showdown in a two-hour meeting in Amman's military headquarters. Hussein, wearing the uniform of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, angrily opened the meeting: "If I don't rule this country, then I shall burn it." In reply, the fedayeen leaders pointedly reminded the king of their own strength...
...sized jokes. As he runs into the fadeout, a passing hippie asks him where he is going. "I don't know," Sellers answers. "There must be someplace." The line sums up both this meandering movie and the flickering career of a gifted clown who has talent to burn but no taste in scripts...
...obtain substantive power at Harvard, they must first give the middle-aged men who make up critical committees a chance to get used to having students around. Students must show them that they won't have Cliffies sharing their suites in Quincy House and that they won't burn Widener. Only then will students get a substantive role in the decision-making process...