Word: craned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Atlantis hurtled toward Mir today, a Canadian astronaut performed some high altitude construction to prepare for the docking. "Chris Hadfield pulled the five-ton docking module out of the payload bay of the shuttle and, with a fifty-foot crane, maneuvered it onto the top of the shuttle craft," says Hannifin. "All this at 17,500 miles per hour and 250 miles above the earth. It's unprecedented in terms of pulling off a giant construction project in space...
Look at all of the people gathered on the street corner. They crane their necks, trying to get a glimpse of the crime scene. Were they bank robbers? Terrorists? The crowd gawks at the FBI agents combing the ground. Hundreds of people assembled on a work day afternoon. Watching...
...window ledge and hanging on while fighting off a brood of bad guys. (Gape in envy, Keanu Reeves!) In The Armour of God II: Operation Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls from the sky-high tower through two awnings and crashes to earth-on his head. (Tiptoe away, Lloyd's of London...
...decision was reached after thorough consideration by faculty members, says Loretto Crane, the school's spokesperson...
...believe that the vote would not have taken place if the concerns had not been addressed," Crane says. "Reflection about the changes was long enough and thorough enough...