Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But no rocket fuel is really safe, even the scraped-off match-head material that is popular with subteen-agers. When the fuel burns, it generates gas inside the rocket. If the gas is allowed to escape too easily, its pressure remains low and it generates too little thrust to...
Designing a successful solid-fuel rocket is largely a matter of matching the burning rate of the fuel to the nozzle through which the gases escape. This is not easy for skilled experts. For kids with a collection of pipe fittings, a couple of chemicals and almost no knowledge, correct...
Only Joe Noble at 147, captain Bob Foster at 177, and heavy-weight Ted Robbins could win for the varsity, each taking a decision. Robbins' was the most decisive match of the afternoon, as he scored takedowns in all three periods, added a last period escape and riding time for...
Foster also had his troubles with Cornell's Walker Fillius. He scored six of his points in the second period, with a reversal and two takedowns. Fillius' two second period escpaes, plus a third escape and a last period takedown pulled him within one point, but Foster's point for...
At the end, one of the few survivors stands on a hill everlooking the remains of the bridge, its builder, and its destroyers, murmuring, for very good reason, "Madness...madness." Such fine touches of irony pervade the film, giving it a refreshing tartness that most war movies lack. Boulle has...