Word: chests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rewards of fame were heaped upon Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr. last week. In Washington, where crowds lined the historic parade route between the White House and the Capitol, the President pinned the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Distinguished Service Medal on Shepard's chest. At Grand Bahama Island, where Shepard was debriefed after his ride, an airport was to be named after him. At New Jersey's Palisades Amusement Park, an earth-bound spaceship was renamed the Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. Rocket Ride...
...black body starkly thin against the white sheets, the speaker was Jean Felix, 22, a refugee from the nine-week-old revolt in Portuguese Angola. Two bayonet thrusts had gone completely through his chest; one had cut a kidney in half. He was recovering in the Christian Medical Institute Hospital at Kimpese in the Congo, 20 miles north of the Angola border...
First "clothes" applied were four electrocardiograph sensors glued to his chest. Then came a respirometer (to measure breathing) taped to his neck and a rectal thermometer to measure deep body temperature. Wires from all these instruments were gathered at a metal plug that would be fitted later into the space suit. After all wires and instruments were checked, Shepard donned long underwear with built-in spongy pads to aid air circulation. Then he was helped into his 30-lb. space suit made of aluminized nylon outside and rubberized nylon inside. It was a tight squeeze. Before all Zippers, straps...
...which contains such stanzas as the following: For six long weeks we drifted on, we had nor food nor water; /We ate the cook, we ate the mate, we ate the captain's daughter./The sails grew mould overhead--ha! ha! the fishes laughed,--/We broke into the medicine chest, and all its contents quaffed. Thus the Advocate 85 years...
...Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer of the U.S., Bernard Zehrfuss of France, and Pier Luigi Nervi of Italy. Despite all this, Corbu was in fact entering the richest phase of his career. Plans that had been locked in his mind for years began tumbling out like coins from a treasure chest. Now came the Marseille apartment block of raw concrete (béton brut), on which the marks of the form boards were left visible. The Society for the Preservation of the Beauties of France denounced it; a large hardware firm refused to sell it locks or hinges, for fear...