Word: ending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, as Apollo 12's astronauts bedded down in the LRL for the remainder of their 21-day quarantine, NASA was making plans for its next lunar expedition. Buoyed by the bull's-eye at Surveyor Crater, the space agency tentatively scheduled the launch of Apollo 13 for March 12 and picked the most difficult site to date for man's next lunar landing: the ancient highlands near the mountain-ringed crater Fra Mauro...
Rearguard Operation. After Husák visited Moscow in October, he and his Soviet hosts issued a joint statement that spoke of "carrying on to the end the struggle against right-wing opportunism." Husák has been faithful to his word: some Czechs are wondering whether he will go so far as to stage political show trials...
...good. A young man who had never dated a girl, he found a job polishing and arranging fruit in a Seattle supermarket and took some satisfaction in it. But his failure in school, tugging remorselessly at his conscience, drove him to the Seattle public library. For hours on end, unable to fathom the printed mysteries of its stacks, he pored over the illustrations. In a way that he still does not understand, pictures of airplanes and weapons of war fascinated him. And his thoughts slowly turned to the other culture of modern society where men gather in the strong solidarity...
...Niemann to sink a reverse layup; seconds later, he went up twice under the Boston backboard to slam away Jim Barnes' layup attempts. When Reed left the game to a standing ovation, he had 27 points and the Knicks had a 25-point lead they held to the end...
...arranged along the helix in an enormous variety of sequences. Each of these sequences contains genetic information that determines, for example, whether a child will have blue eyes or whether a plant will produce wrinkled seeds. But where along the length of the DNA molecule does one gene end and another begin? How can a single gene be isolated so that its characteristics and processes can be studied...