Word: bursts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control systems. On orders from Houston, the astronauts shut down Gemini's thrusters; for the remainder of the coupled flight, they used only Agena's power for both attitude and major orbital maneuvers, drawing on Agena's 3,348 lbs. of remaining propellant. One brief burst from Agena's big, 16,000-lb.-thrust engine added 280 m.p.h. to Gemini-Agena's velocity. "When that baby lights, there's no doubt about it," gasped Young...
...third. Romo passed the lead to Bell during the second quarter; the half-mile time was 1 min. 55.4 sec. In the third lap, Ryun outran his rabbits. He flashed past Romo-"running like a bull," said Romo later-took off after Bell, and with 660 yds. to go, burst into the lead. Spectators and officials screamed encouragement. "Come on, Jim!" they yelled. "Speed it up!" Jim left the rest of the field 20 yards behind, passed the three-quarter-mile mark at 2 min. 55 sec., and really poured it on-pounding through the last quarter mile...
...progression, spread ing west and south to cover an area eight miles square. Negroes stopped automobiles driven by whites and beat the occupants. Small gangs pillaged scores of shops. They hurled fire bombs, rocks and chunks of masonry at the firemen who responded to the alarms. As Molotov cocktails burst in one drugstore window, a Negro woman emerged, weep ing. "Why would they do this to their own people?" she asked. "The world's gone...
...works, as on last June 19 when officers rounded up a loud crowd of 23. Police recall that one girl got on the phone to her father to ask him for the $200 bail. "Hello, Daddy," she said, her voice trembling. "Happy Father's Day." Then she burst into tears...
...into the home of Negro Postal Employee Samuel Lankford. At 2 a.m. Lankford awoke to find four raiders toting shotguns and aiming flashlights in his face. His six children got the same treatment. Schoolteacher Lucinda Wallace was showing slides to a Bible class at home when six armed men burst in, while eight others barred her hysterical mother from the house. When Mrs. Maggie Sheppard, 72, refused to answer the raiders she was arrested, along with her mentally ill grandson, and grilled for two hours for the non-crime of "Investigation, suspected of Assault and Shooting...