Word: centaur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scene, Honduran soldiers of the 6th Centaur battalion told TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief David DeVoss that Schwab's copter had strayed out of Honduran airspace. "It came straight at us from inside Nicaragua," said Juan Carlos Torres, 20. "The Sandinistas were shooting at the helicopter, and it was being hit. It was in trouble and just made it across to Honduras." Another witness, Santo Andre Valledares, 24, recalled: "When the gringos arrived, they fell out of the chopper and one looked to be dead. The Sandinistas kept up their fire for a full five minutes after the crash...
...turbulent autobiography. The lips, extravagantly full, can pout or preen or tauten resolutely or open in an elfin smile. The long Botticelli neck carries the eye to a strange and strong body, with delicate breasts, expressive musculature and the strong haunches of a peasant girl or a centaur. Kinski is a true camera animal because these disparate, classically mismatched parts combine sensationally well. Looking at her, the spectator is drawn to look into her?to search those eyes, that face and body, for the real Nastassia Kinski. But because she is a true camera animal, the real Nastassia Kinski...
...stone farmhouse outside town where he and his parents moved in 1945. They find his mother Linda, 78, still living there, cheerful, alert and willing to guide visitors through the landscape that her son transcribed in the stories of Pigeon Feathers (1962) and the novels The Centaur (1963) and Of the Farm...
...payload, but who is going to buy space in it? Communications companies, for one, are already lined up to use the shuttle for satellite launches. One advantage is price: $35 million for a shuttle launch vs. $48 million for a boost into space from a conventional Atlas-Centaur rocket. Another is that the shuttle can carry several satellites at a time. What is more, says A T & T 's Robert Latter, "you can test the satellite all the way up. Maybe you could even fix it in flight." After the astronauts perfect their skills at retrieving satellites with...
...Pentagon hopes to replace the Titan, Titan-Centaur and Atlas-Centaur boosters that have long been used to hurl military payloads like the Big Bird spy satellite into orbit. Such rockets are strictly one-shot throwaways, costly to use (up to $75 million a launch) and not entirely foolproof (5% of the launches have failed). For the military, the shuttle is a reliable new lift vehicle that can be employed again and again to put hardware into orbit. But it is much more than that. The Air Force has long dreamed of a permanent, manned orbital platform that could...