Word: cordingly
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...Friday afternoon, Michael S. Ansara '67 came into the Lampoon building to ask if he could plug in an extension cord to light up an information table outside that night. When asked why, Ansara explained that SDS was planning a protest march on Washington, and that the Boston buses were leaving from in front of the Lampoon building. Several members of the Lampoon immediately began recruiting people by phone, and later in the dining halls, to come to a counter-demonstration on the steps of the Lampoon building. By the time the buses were scheduled to leave, a crowd...
...that it is independent of the spaceship except for a simple tether. The pictures do show cylinders on Leonov's back that probably held oxygen, but the cable attaching him to the spaceship was thick enough to contain a good-sized oxygen tube. It may be an umbilical cord supplying oxygen from the spaceship's tanks, besides carrying wires for communication and telemetering. The tube could also carry away carbon dioxide from Leonov's breathing, water vapor from his perspiration and excess heat. The oxygen cylinders on his back may have been for emergency...
...stage, in which men will wear them in a vacuum chamber under the glare of simulated space radiation. Less ambitious suits for emerging from Gemini capsules are farther advanced. Like the suit worn by Leonov. they will carry their own oxygen and cooling equipment and also trail an umbilical cord as an extra safety measure. They are designed to support life in a vacuum for several hours, and U.S. space-suit experts, who were deeply impressed by the pictures of Leonov's brief excursion, suspect that his suit could do the same...
...playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with clenched hair." A clenched-jaw finale finds the pair admitting that they are not meant for each other...
...girl across the hall is writing her thesis and I'm dating my nosey next door neighbor's brother. Besides, I've never yet had a phone conversation that would set anything on fire. Whether Buildings and Grounds likes it or not, I'm afraid that the long cord is here to stay...