Word: dan
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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...
...Dan Rather looks exhausted," someone said. "His hands are shaking," another added fatuously...
Most unsettling of all, the great Dan Marino whined and pouted and finally gave up in the final minutes, throwing a series of half-hearted wounded ducks...
DARTMOUTH (60): John Mackay 6-0--12; John Bean 2-1--5; John Miller 2-4--8; Bryan Randall 6-2--14; Joe Kilroy 4-1--9; Len Bazelak 0-1--1; Jim Barton 4-0--8; Eugene Sims 1-0--2; Dan O'Connor 0-0--0; Darin Maccoux 0-1--1. Total...
...after the Republican revolt six days earlier, the most far- reaching tax-reform plan since World War II passed the House last week and was sent to the Senate, which will take it up in 1986. The surprising bipartisan triumph by Reagan and Democratic Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski came during the prolonged and hectic finale of a year otherwise distinguished chiefly by the achievement of new levels of fecklessness in dealing with, or failing to deal with, the federal budget process...