Word: circulars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minimax has gone into Rome with two stores in the last six months, plans four more within two years, including a 66,000-sq.-ft. circular supermarket that will be Europe's largest single food store. The largest store now is also owned by Minimax: its Pryca store in Madrid, which sells TV sets as well as T-bone steaks, also provides shoe repair and coin-operated laundry service. So successful is the store that the chain is already building three more stores in Madrid, two in Barcelona and one in Malaga...
...miles above the earth, then curved down as low as 776 miles. When this original orbit had been analyzed and Early Bird was at an apogee, a signal from the earth fired a small rocket motor to give just enough extra speed to put the satellite into a circular orbit that matched the earth's 24-hour period of rotation. In effect, the intricate electronic package put together by Hughes Aircraft picked a spot high above the equator between Brazil and Africa, and there it hovered, ready to begin its job of pointing the way toward a worldwide communications...
...Flying" his ship with brief bursts of energy from the appropriate rockets, Capsule Commander Grissom brought it absolutely level. Then he fired two forward-pointing rockets for precisely 73 seconds. Molly slowed down; the apogee of her orbit dropped by 34 miles. The spacecraft was now on an almost circular course...
...bring a sort of bloated football across their opponents' goal line. They can run with it, kick it, or pass it laterally or backward. If a man with the ball is tackled by an opponent he must drop it immediately, and both teams form a "scrum," that is, a circular pile of men attempting to kick the ball into their possession and kick their opposition away from the ball...
...Harvard groups were present to protest against the rally. Members of the November 9th Committee passed out leaflets urging the government to stay in Vietnam. Four Law School students from the Ad Hoc Committee to End All Ad Hoc Committees loudly criticized the "circular false argument" which they found in the speeches...