Word: deked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perform on the road to heroism. They went to Africa to broil in the sun. They lived beneath the sea, whirled in Centrifuges, flew X-15's. There must have been reasons for these exploits, but the true motivation was to make heroes of these astronauts. There was Gus, Deke, Wally, and Scott. They were good men, and true, not the old wrecks the Russians sent into space from Dark Siberian plains. Neither were they for that matter the bible punching sissies who reached the moon last summer. These Seven drank and loved. Here was excitement. America needed heroes...
Fortunately, only the astronauts felt frozen. On their last night in space, they donned two pairs of thermal underwear apiece to ward off the chill; Lovell even put on his bulky moonwalking shoes to keep his toes warm. Because they had slept only fitfully, Deke Slayton, NASA's director of flight-crew operations, suggested that each crew member take two Dexedrine pills to keep him alert for busy and fateful moments ahead. Said Lovell: "It's going to be an interesting...
...possibility of replacing Mattingly with his back-up crewman, John Swigert, who was found to have immunity against rubella. But Swigert had trained only with the back-up crew and there was doubt that he could properly coordinate with Lovell and Haise on such short notice. Said Astronaut Chief "Deke" Slayton: "It was sort of like trying to put Glenn Miller into Tommy Dorsey's band. Both are great musicians, but each has a different style...
...come in and deke," he was saying. "Just don't start stopping too many, or I'll have to fix it so you don't even see the puck...
Then he started to deke again. He faked me way out of the cage and flipped it in easily. Again I came out to meet him and he swerved around me and shot at the open net. Then, he missed another skating around the cage without shooting. Then, he faked me again. I slipped and accidentially tripped him. But he scored anyway? It was over. He had made...