Word: carte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some time later, when Mrs. Fogle arrived, her cart as filled as a Christmas stocking, she was surprised to find her son, the student, looking drawn and tired, his shoulders bent over a large book with small printing. Her husband quickly put a finger to his lips and motioned her to him. Arm in arm, they stood over the boy and, nodding and smiling, together they welcomed the new generation...
Forbes Plaza was once again filled with panhandlers and idle passerby, but this year open air commercial activity swelled to new heights. Piles of halter tops, rows of sandals, and racks of baubles clogged the front of Holyoke Center's arcade. And an umbrellaed bright yellow hot dog cart from the Underdog peddled franks and sauerkraut to Cambridge's hungry...
Much of the lunar material was gathered at the beginning of the week during the third and final EVA (extravehicular activity) by Young and Duke on the plains of Descartes. With helpful navigational guidance from Houston, 240,000 miles away, the astronauts drove their $12 million moon cart to the very rim of a large feature called North Ray Crater, some three miles away from the lunar lander, Orion. As the rover's television camera followed them, they threaded their way down North Ray's steep slopes, going deeper into a large crater than any of the eight...
...rays, the sample may still contain volatile chemicals that would otherwise have long ago been "boiled off" by the intense solar heat. Finally, as the long EVA drew to a close, the astronauts headed back toward Orion, setting a lunar record of 1 1 m.p.h. in their electric-powered cart and drawing a mild rebuke from Houston for speeding...
Postal authorities were baffled; rarely had they encountered a logistics problem of this scope. Finally, with ten tons of matzoth spilling over five postal substations, officials called the Sanitary Engineering department and requested that it cart the matzoth off and burn them...