Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small island nation. Replied the President: "I know that. I accept that." Still, Weinberger and Vessey wanted to learn more about the weapons and willingness to fight of the Cubans on Grenada. Recalled an aide: "I had a real fear that it could be a very bad situation: Desert One all over again...
...some of the men who a decade later will become astronauts: Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Grissom (Fred Ward) and Deke Slayton (Scott Paulin). Along the way NASA adds Glenn (Ed Harris). Alan Sheperd (Scott Glenn). Scott Carpenter (Charles Frank) and Wally Schirra (Larrie Henriksen). But Yeager remains on the California desert to continue his test runs which seem every bit as heroic as his counterparts' trips into space. As portrayed by the playwright Sam Shepard, Yeager stands above the rest. His humility, perseverance and courage imply that even someone not lionized by the media may just possess all the right stuff...
Even California's fabled weather-no one had yet heard of smog-refused to cooperate. Olympic committees from northern countries complained that their athletes could not compete in the heat of what they assumed was a desert climate. Nonsense, replied the boosters, Southern California is moderation itself. And to prove it, they set out thermometers during the first part of August 1931, on the dates on which the competition would be held a year later. To their consternation, a heat wave sent the mercury climbing past 100°F day after day. The results were quietly consigned...
...answer a whole bunch of 'what if questions: What if the Black Death had spread half as fast? What if there had been a quarter as much money in circulation in 1475? What if the climate had been 10° colder as the Euphrates was turning into desert...
...Charles H. Best, extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas and finally provided a successful treatment of diabetes mellitus, until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted a cover story to the controversial theories of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis...