Word: countless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That danger is a long shot indeed. Apollo's engine has been checked countless times in flight and on the ground. At the slightest hint of trouble, the mission could be safely aborted at any of a dozen points along the way. Even as Apollo nears the moon, the astronauts will still be able to make a "nogo" decision. Should the spacecraft fail to be slowed down as planned, it can simply make a high-speed loop of the moon and head back toward earth...
...victory. Now he could forget the defeats, both the hairbreadth miss of 1960 and the humiliating rebuff of 1962. Now he could put behind him the fear that maybe he was, after all, a born loser. Now he could relish the fruits of unremitting labor for his party, of countless fund-raising dinners and victory banquets and formula speeches in remote towns. Now he could demonstrate to the nation-and perhaps to himself- just what his "great philosophy" is. Now, at last, he had achieved a goal that, six and eight years ago, seemed to have eluded him forever...
...gives the finest performance of a lengthy and distinguished acting career. A graduate of the militantly proletarian Group Theater of the late '30s, he was the quintessential Willy Loman in Broadway's first production of Death of a Salesman. Conventionally cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind, incurably foolish, a man eventually so scoured by suffering that...
...countless victims know, infectious hepatitis is almost always a nagging, disabling disease, with some symptoms that persist for many months. But in a few cases, perhaps three out of a thousand, it is a fulminating infection that throws the victim into a coma and may cause death within a few days. Only in the past four years has an effective treatment for this form of hepatitis been developed; one man who is walking proof of its value is Peace Corps Volunteer John M. Bayne...
Young children have a maddening way of getting into bottles of potentially lethal medicines and household products. Last year, despite countless stomach pumpings in hospital emergency rooms, more than 350 tots died as a result of this deadly tendency. Such fatalities may soon be greatly reduced, thanks to a new container that has proved itself relatively impregnable in youthful hands...