Word: compacter
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...Trim and compact (5 ft. 9½ in.), the easygoing Haise is married to his high school girl friend, Mary Grant. The match seems ideal. Haise is a devoted family man. Mary is totally immersed in astronaut life and needs little help in translating the exotic technical language her husband and his fellow space travelers speak. The Raises have three children, and Mary's icy calm throughout her ordeal was all the more remarkable for the fact that she is expecting her fourth (which the family hopes will be a girl) in June...
...volcanic material and the churning of the lunar surface by billions of years of micrometeorite impacts have added their distinctive characteristics to the surrounding surface. By landing at Fra Mauro, the astronauts may be able to find many differing geological clues to the lunar past, all within a single compact area...
...Taylor's idea. "She'll come as a friend, like one of us," he says, "with the understanding that she doesn't choose between us." Bert agrees, but it is a compact made to be broken. Taylor, longingly in love with Marty, clings to his word; he cannot bring himself to violate the agreement and "ruin the beautiful summer" by sleeping with her. Bert has no such scruples. The result is as inevitable as autumn...
...cars a week, for nine weeks so far. Ford's new Maverick is selling at the rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year not of the compact but of the intermediate-size car-the first year that sales of intermediates will equal or surpass those of standard-size automobiles...
WILLIAMS' hard. compact style wrings every ounce of meaning from his words. His ability to flesh out characters and scenes is a pleasure to observe: he has an exciting way of making his characters come alive-not jump but flow off the pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...