Word: float
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great relief of his two-man audience, be immediately established that he neither pretends to be an expert on education nor has begun to make the after dinner circuit. (He ended up next day showing some NASA films of "Ed White's float in space" in lieu of giving a talk...
Ships on Air. From such far-out ideas come down-to-earth breakthroughs. It was only ten years ago that Christopher Cockerell, an English engineer, reversed the suction on a household vacuum cleaner, stuck the hose through the bottom of an open-ended tin can, watched the can float-and got the idea for the hovercraft. Today's hovercraft are amphibious vessels that glide across land or sea a few inches above the surface, supported on jets of air around the perimeter of the hull. Two weeks ago, Swedish Lloyd and the Swedish American lines signed a deal...
...correspondents who beef about these complex arrangements, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester replies: "Sure, we will float trial balloons. Reporters should ask themselves, 'What is he giving me this for?' and decide along with their editors, 'Do we want to go along with this?' There is always the wastebasket. But there is always the competition. They might print it. The only defense is to slip in a few lines showing that it is a floater...
Tethered to his Gemini space ship by a thin gold cord, astronaut Edward H. White II stopped into the void yesterday and became the first American to float alone in the hostile emptiness of space...
White's "space walk" lasted eight minutes longer than expected, and it doubled the time of Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first human being ever to float in space on March...