Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toiling round the clock, scores of technicians and scientists at NASA'S centers -Cape Kennedy, Houston, Huntsville, Ala., and Langley Research Center, Va., as well as in the labs and workshops of the space agency's private contractors -worked feverishly to put together the assortment of gear and tools that was needed to repair Skylab. The astronauts themselves practiced the various repair possibilities. Indeed, these activities continued until the very eve of last week's launch; so many new and untried procedures were involved that the command module was not fully loaded until four hours before Friday...
...Congress allows us to keep in contact with everybody interested in the problems of Portuguese-Americans," Torres said. "We'll be able to increase our numbers, and gain power. We're in high gear...
...arrested Watergate burglars were well equipped with spying and break-in gear, as shown by the tools and papers confiscated from them by Washington police. Among the items seized, counterclockwise from lower right: metal mouthpiece that disguises the voice when speaking on the telephone; Social Security card with phony name, used by Conspirator E. Howard Hunt Jr.; tape, screwdriver, pliers, flashlight and other burglar's tools. Lower left: phone numbers found on a Watergate conspirator listing Hunt's White House number. This was one of the primary clues that led police to trace the break-in plot...
...this powerful political machine, built up during the president's first administration, run by aides trained during those first four years, did not gear itself for a single break-in at the Watergate complex last June. Evidence exists indicating the espionage team broke into Democratic National Headquarters a number of times before it was apprehended June...
...devoid of charm, wit, taste, humor and even a semblance of intelligence. If the film has any interest it's not what is on screen, but in the emotional turmoil that must have antedated its making. What disenchantment and anger has forced the American apocalypse-wish into such high gear...