Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantages, they said, would lie in the increased contact between the program's faculty and students. "Students could really get the feel of the college," Swanger said...
...Shortage. Using the knowledge of orbital mechanics that had been refined during earlier Gemini missions, Young and Collins gradually maneuvered toward a rendezvous with the Agena 10 target vehicle that had been placed in orbit with a precise launch just 100 minutes before their own blastoff. They established radar contact with the Agena 10 during their second revolution, finally sighted the target some 50 miles ahead and 17 miles above. After rising to meet the Agena and nudging Gemini's nose into the Agena's receiving collar, Young coupled the two ships...
Eventually, after a man named Jifi Opatrny (which means "George Careful") had taken over as Mrkva's contact, Mrkva was told to plant a listening device in a bookcase in one of the State Department offices used by the director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs...
...kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong, skinned him and hung him up in the village. Not surprisingly, captured Viet Cong orders now stipulate that contact with the Koreans is to be avoided at all costs-unless a Viet Cong victory is 100% certain...
Cezanne claimed that all he wished to do was "revive Poussin in the contact with nature." Even Picasso, using Poussin as a pianist might an exercise in arpeggios, steadied his nerves by copying one of the past master's works while gunfire echoed through the streets of Paris...