Word: feet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft was close to the surface. "Forty feet," called Aldrin, rattling off altitudes and rates of descent with crackling precision. "Things look good. Picking up some dust [stirred up on the surface by the blasting descent engine]. Faint shadow. Drifting to the right a little. Contact light! O.K. Engine stop." Armstrong quickly recited a ten-second check list of switches to turn off Then came the word that the world had been waiting...
...have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet...
...probes dangling from the LM's footpads. When the probes brush the surface, two lights the size of half-dollars will begin flashing in the LM under the white-lettered words, "lunar contact," and Armstrong will cut off the engine. The LM will then drop the last few feet to the surface, touching down at 4:19 p.m. (E.D.T.) on Sunday...
Some ten hours after the landing, Armstrong will begin EVA (extravehicular activity), backing feet-first out of the hatch, on his belly. On the LM's "porch," he will pull a ring that opens a storage area and exposes a mounted TV camera, which will relay to audiences on earth a view of his awkward progress down the LM's ladder. At the bottom, Armstrong will place his right foot in the bowl-shaped footpad and?by 2:22 a.m. Monday, if he is on schedule?plant his left foot firmly on lunar soil...
Laver's serve is as unique as it is effective. The man is not physically impressive, but his forearms are massive. On every service the ball rises high over the net, then plunges at an opponent's feet with the speed and dip of a major league sinker. A refined, almost inherent ability to put drastic topspin on his volleys make Laver's returns tortuous to handle, and even when he is caught out of position, and uncanny sixth sense can often keep him out of danger...