Word: cone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...master of Cabot House. One would think that as master of a Quad House, she would have been perhaps a little more sensitive to Quad residents who understandably are peeved by the now regrettable condition of the Quad. Such "art" has made the Quad into one giant sno-cone practically useless to those who do not desire to be sticky and cherry flavored...
...from 20 years ago or a Spanish galleon from 300 years ago." By week's end the mystery had not been solved. Recovery workers also turned their attention to a 13-ft.-diameter orange object sighted some 100 miles east of Savannah. They were hoping that it was the cone of the main fuel tank...
Grissom, the second American in space, White, who made the first U.S. space walk, and Chaffee, a rookie astronaut, had been scheduled to run through a simulated Apollo launch. Suited up, they clambered into the gleaming steel cone 218 ft. above Pad 34 and hooked themselves up to life-support systems. Technicians sealed the airtight double hatch plates and pumped pure oxygen into the little chamber. The test countdown had proceeded for several hours when suddenly, over their radio link to the spacecraft, controllers heard the cry "Fire aboard the spacecraft!" followed by movements, more shouts and a sharp scream...
...J.P.L. experts interpret the tape as showing a bright sphere of flame appearing well above one of the boosters' lower skirts. It is on the interior side, facing the external tank and pointing away from the orbiter. A fraction of a second later, the sphere of flame becomes a cone-shaped jet of fire. The pointed end of the cone emerges from the booster, and its rounded end seems to aim at the fuel tank, apparently burning a hole in its side. The next thing to be seen is the huge fireball, engulfing everything...
Also found were two cone-shaped objects described as "about 10 feet" in diameter. One had an attached parachute, indicating it came from one of the solid rocket boosters blown up. Each booster is 12 feet in diameter and contains four parachutes designed to lower the spent rockets to the ocean for retrieval...