Word: craft
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Astronaut Dan Brandenstein reported that a nozzle on a motor came within a fifth of an inch of burning through. Had it burned through, he said, the result would have been "catastrophic," with the craft going into a pinwheeling motion. He believed the five astronauts on board would have been killed...
...most commanding fashion facilities. Its size and location confer upon it a legitimacy that is automatic and virtually unrivaled. As part of the Louvre, the museum officially makes fashion design a part of the great creative tapestry of the fine arts, taking it further from the world of craft. "Fashion deserved to be installed in the heart of the city, enclosed within the walls of the greatest museum in the world," said Minister of Culture Jack Lang when he announced the establishment of the museum almost four years...
...leave the earth with the U.S. space program, were certainly tragic. Yet the orgy of media coverage that quickly followed the shuttle's demise seemed far out of proportion to the death of a handful of Americans knowingly engaged in an extremely hazardous activity. The networks replayed the craft's sudden explosion over and over again. Viewers witnessed countless clips of horrified family members and friends of the astronauts as they saw their loved ones disappear in a cloud of fire. No detail was too mundane or too personal or too painful...
Debris was so heavy that for several minutesNASA directed rescue craft to stay out of thearea
...beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked off in the afternoon, with a repeat performance the next day, a Sunday. There were aerobatics, fake dogfights, exploding oil drums out in the center of the field -- everything but a wing walker. The older the pilot, it seemed, the more kisses he blew the crowd upon...