Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...account of mankind's relations with the moon from the dawn of history until today. The second part took a leap into the future with Guided-Missile Expert Wernher von Braun putting on a sample flight to the moon and back with the complement of spaceships and space gear that must have had Captain Video gnawing his oxygen tube with envy...
...scene of the crash of Flight 476. the CAB men searched out every scrap of wreckage. Then all parts that might be concerned with the accident were taken to American Airlines' Overhaul and Supply Depot at Tulsa, where the No. 2 (righthand) engine, with its adjacent landing gear and wing structure was assembled in flight position. By this time the CAB detectives had a good notion where the trouble started, but they came to no decision until masses of evidence had been accumulated...
...have to gear my work to the job at hand. If that requires getting up before dawn and working through till midnight, then that's the way I do it. But if there's nothing pressing the next day, then I'm likely to be an hour late getting to the office and an hour early leaving it. I'm one of those unfortunate men who have to have pressure to work well. So instead of efficiently spreading my work out and doing it on a schedule, I tend to let it pile...
...same student tried it again. Once more, he quickly became withdrawn and paranoid. His description: "Complete and insoluble confusion and anxiety reigned . . . One hallucination was that of lying flat on a slowly revolving, cloudlike object, and there were other similar objects all around, touching gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps a purposeless pinball machine, with lights arranged in rows and columns. The lights-or flowers-were growing, then bursting in irregular fashion, one at the left, then...
...rooms whose doors were just about to swing shut." When he came to photograph interiors of the Kremlin, the spirit of Geneva blew a fuse: he got a flat refusal on the excuse that he had insufficient equipment -even though he had six cameras, electronic flashguns and enough lighting gear to illuminate the Kremlin's largest chambers. But the pictures he came back with added up to an exclusive color portfolio for this week's report on Moscow for the Tourist...