Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short time later, the command ship Yankee Clipper separated faultlessly from the S-4B, turned to dock with the lunar module Intrepid and extract it from the rocket's nose. Locked together, the two craft proceeded on a long coast to the moon. Before they bedded down for their first night in space, Conrad and Bean made an unscheduled inspection of Intrepid while Astronaut Gordon remained at the controls of the command module. To their relief, the LM's electronic gear had also withstood the sudden pulse of current. By now the astronauts were in such high spirits...
...London dock workers last week started a collection to buy Prince Philip a polo pony. Newspaper columnists suggested that Queen Elizabeth save on household expenses by reusing tea leaves. Cartoonists depicted the royal family as hocking the crown jewels or renting out some of Buckingham Palace's 600 rooms. Parliament debated a subject that the House almost always discreetly avoids-the state of the Queen's finances...
Right now, the small boats which the 100-odd yacht club members sail are moored at a temporary dock adjacent to the M. I. T. boathouse. The club does not yet know if M. I. T. will let it continue to use the facility for next spring's sailing season...
...returned to Pier 81 and moored. Leaving the dock, we passed an off-duty cabbie in a parking lot who was washing his windshield. Cohn felt that it was "nice" and deduced that the man must own the car personally if he took the trouble to care...
...friends are not all that bad; they could be nice guys if they hadn't just spent a month and a half learning to disguise their prep school accents so they could sound like dock workers...