Word: crucial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever in an orbit around the sun. But NASA flight planners feel that the maneuver is worth the risk: it will save crucial fuel reserves on the way to the landing site in the Sea of Storms, roughly 860 miles west of Tranquillity Base...
Hanify believes the HUC should and assumes it will be given the power to appoint the students to serve on these committees- picking most of these students from its own ranks. Hanify said. "Many of these committees are not so crucial that members need to be elected. I think this is the first time we've had any real power...
...ultimately evaluates her trip to Hanoi as a crucial liberating experience. Explaining its effects on her, she cites the French students who manned the barricades in May, 1968. Sontag says they feel that, though they didn't obtain their specific objective, they haven't been defeated. That is, for individual who have "enjoyed a reprieve from the inhibitions on love and trust this society enforces, the revolution has just started, and it continues...
...shoved somebody, and he was shoved in return. I wondered for a moment whether the altercation that had to follow would be a fight or a brawl. There is a crucial difference. A fight assumes that you have a reasonably good idea of whom you are belting, and why. In a brawl, you aren't that particular about either...
...Crimson defense, on a crucial third-and-11 play at the Big Red 32 allowed Furbush to escape up the right side for 18 yards and the first down. Five plays later. Marinaro broke across for another touchdown, his fifth to tie the Ivy record for most in one game...