Word: cooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rings, already suspect, were spotlighted early in the week when the Times printed details of memos leaked by an unnamed solid-fuel rocket expert. One document, written last July by Richard Cook, an agency budget analyst, noted that booster O rings had shown signs of charring on previous missions and could lead to a "catastrophic" situation...
Panel Chairman Rogers reacted defensively to the Times scoop. At a commission hearing, he asked Cook rhetorically: "Do you think your engineering experience based on the short time you've been at NASA improved your ability to pass judgment on what others had decided?" Cook, who has no engineering experience, seemed stunned and did not reply to the question but forcefully defended the facts in his memo. Two days later, he told the press that NASA engineers had "whispered" in his ear that because of the O-ring problems they "held their breaths" during every shuttle launch. In other testimony...
...Tereshkova (1963) and America's Sally Ride (1983). But Judith ("J.R.") Resnik may have been the most doggedly determined astronaut, male or female, ever to suit up. "I want to do everything there is to be done," she once said, and she came close to her goal. A gourmet cook and classical pianist ("I never play anything softly") with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, she was working on a pilot's license before she died...
Leonard's wife Sheila, 34, a cook of high local renown, prepares all the trekkers' food in Stanley, then has it delivered to the huts by toboggan. Their partners are David Ayer, 37, a financial planner from Massachusetts, and his wife Lexa, 36, who split their time between Boston and Stanley. Ayer proposed to Lexa outside one of the Sawtooth yurts four years ago, after the third day of a five-day tour. It was -48 degrees F, and he wanted to see whether she had the right attitude toward touring...
About 30 Mather House residents last night told Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 that they would like the College to find approachable, enthusiastic professors--preferably ones who could also cook well--when selecting replacements for the outgoing masters...