Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prime Point. As to speculation about the fire's cause, it was reported that four days before the test, there was an apparent short circuit in the ship's system. And moments before the fire burst out in the cockpit, the telemetry readings in Houston reportedly showed a sudden jump in battery temperatures. The obvious possibility was that the spacecraft's circuits may have been overloaded, triggering a spark somewhere and maybe even setting fire to the supposedly heat-resistant wire insulation. But Seamans said that "up to this time," it did not seem that the power...
...tree, hard enough to reach the green, high enough to clear a trap-and then stop. Whack-8 ft. from the pin. Putting? On the 12th hole, Nicklaus ran in a 25-footer, on the 16th a 40-footer, on the 17th a 15-footer. In one spectacular burst, starting at the 12th, Jack birdied five out of six holes, for a back-nine score of 31 and a total of 68-four under par. At the end, Casper was five strokes back, Palmer seven. "Head-to-head competition is pure fun," said Nicklaus, pocketing his winner's check...
...White House. That is sometimes a problem, since many of Inter-Continental's 10,000 employees in 27 foreign countries had never worn shoes or used a knife and fork until the hotel began training them. Few early guests of the Beirut Phoenicia will forget the experience. Maids burst into occupied guest rooms to plug in vacuums to clean the halls. Water pipes sprang torrential leaks, turning lobby light fixtures into overhead fountains and drenching clothes stowed in bedrooms. Such difficulties were overcome, and Pan Am flew in 900 travel agents from all over Western Europe...
...felt the first warmup. Radar-controlled B-52 bombers came over in ten waves at 30,000 ft. to rain down fire on the triple-canopy jungle concealing enemy movements. They dropped magnesium incendiary bomblets, which fell first in large clusters, then broke apart at 8,000 ft. and burst into flame as they plunged into a jungle already dried tinder-brown in places by chemical defoliants. For hours afterwards, dense smoke rolled 15,000 ft. into the air above yet another portion of the Viet Cong's rapidly shrinking sanctuaries...
...year was scarcely three weeks old, and its step on Wall Street seemed springy indeed. With a burst of daily trading that surprised brokers-a daily average of 9,544,000 shares v. 7,500,000 last year-chart lines for the New York Stock Exchange pointed almost steadily upward. Boosted at midweek by a one-day gain of 10.41 points, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished the week 12.03 points higher than it began. Overall, the industrials had risen 61.47 since the year began, stood at week's end at 847.16, or as high again as they were...