Word: fastens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughts about the sail-like canopy, because they feared that the light jet plumes from the command module's thrusters might fog the still functioning solar wings on the telescope mount. As he hung out of the open hatch of the command module, an astronaut would have to fasten the canopy in place while the ship hovered at Skylab's side. The final decision about which technique was to be used was left to the astronauts-the first time that so important a responsibility had been given to a crew in space...
...system at Basel-Mulhouse Airport and received permission to land. Inside Invicta International Airlines' flight "Oscar Papa" were 138 passengers, most of them housewives from neighboring towns in southern England on a package "shopping tour" to Switzerland. They were singing and chatting when they received routine orders to fasten their seat belts and were told: "We will be landing at Basel Airport within ten minutes." Oscar Papa never made...
...government is now entering an era of the most practical politics South Africa has ever known. The time of speeches, blueprints and fancy flights has gone." The statement could have meant anything, but aides insisted that it was the Prime Minister's way of telling the verkramptes to fasten their seat belts for even bigger changes ahead...
When the red warning light flashed on the instrument panel of the Israeli air-force helicopter, one passenger had good reason to be alarmed. Said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who suffered a broken back in a 1964 plane crash: "I've been through this before. Fasten your seat belts." The order was unnecessary; the chopper carrying the Senator and wife Joan Kennedy to a meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a safe emergency landing on a beach south of Tel Aviv, giving the Kennedys an opportunity to stroll around and collect sea shells. Said the unflustered Joan...
...believes that environments offer a means of liberation. "Too many guys," he says, "are imprisoned in and by their $40,000 homes. Like my students, they might find liberation in a 4-ft. cube." Two of the four shelves inside the cube can form a seat while the others fasten into the moldings to form a desk or table. Later, a bed can be made of a pair of shelves-the sleeper's feet extend through a side-window flap. Another variation: a student can open a roof flap, stick head and shoulders out and use the roof...