Word: died
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projected "footprint" of Skylab's debris seemed to be safely in the Indian Ocean. Houston's perspiring controllers relaxed. The monitoring team gave Johnson Space Center Director Christopher Kraft a Skylab SPLAT DOWN (instead of splashdown) T shirt For a time, Skylab still refused to die After losing its solar panels, the vehicle skipped as it hit the dense atmosphere like a flat rock bouncing off the surface of a lake. Moving through a gap in the U.S. tracking network, Skylab slid on in radio silence, with no one aware of precisely where it was. NASA...
...die-hard Yankee fan, having to spend the summer in Beantown is about as bad as Oliver Barrett III having to attend law school in New Haven...
...that master of gadgets who provides Bond with something which you can bet 007 will use later on when all appears lost. Although one of these gadgets (a throbbing silver motor-boat with all the extras) is wasted on a chase scene with footage lifted from Live and Let Die, it nonetheless makes up for the obvious absence of the modified Ferrari which always seemed to be at 007's disposal throughout all his other films...
...losing business where catches are ever smaller. Some species like the bowhead and right whales may now number no more than 3,000 and perhaps are headed irreversibly toward extinction. Thus as the meeting convenes in London, the question may really be: Of whalers or whales, which will die out first...
...illuminate America's most humiliating pre-Viet Nam military fiasco: the 1961 invasion at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. But he also spent several years assaulting the still sensitive memories of the CIA's chastened plotters; interviewing the bitter Cuban exiles who had watched their comrades die on the beach; quizzing Fidel Castro and dozens of his victorious defenders. The result is truly The Untold Story: an infuriating tale of blunders by bureaucrats and a young President who was too dazzled by the CIA and the Pentagon to redesign-or abandon-a hopeless project...