Word: gears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family to witness every crash, while the Japanese entry (Yujiro Ishihara) pilots a loose assemblage of box kites driven by kamikaze impulses. The flyer in everyone's ointment is England's villainous Sir Percy (Terry-Thomas), who sends his man to saw away struts or detach landing gear on rival planes, a tactic that leads to many a droll mid-air crisis...
White began to ready his EVA gear...
There were 54 items to check from his flight-plan list, and it was painfully slow going. White began to perspire heavily; almost every drop of sweat was noted by Houston's wizard gear...
...Directions. Penzias and Wilson used an extremely sensitive receiver, part of it cooled by liquid helium to eliminate most of the radio noise that is generated internally by electronic gear. They rebuilt the horn meticulously, cleaned and aligned its joints, covered its seams smoothly with aluminum tape to reduce noise coming from imperfections. They made allowance for radio waves from the earth's atmosphere. After all that, the horn continued to catch a steady radio whisper that did not vary by day or night, winter or summer. It seemed to come from all directions with equal intensity...
...Ugliness Is Bitterness." Last week the national face-lifting drive moved into even higher gear when 844 carefully selected delegates-including architects, urban-renewal experts, businessmen, Government leaders, conservationists-crowded into a Washington building auditorium for a White House Conference on Natural Beauty. Lady Bird, opening the affair, said: "Ugliness is bitterness, an eroding force on the people of our land. We are all here to try and change that." Laurance Rockefeller, conference chairman, briskly told the conferees: "Our task is to produce specific ideas and come up with solutions...