Word: grapefruit
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...seems there is a worm in the grapefruit...
...people in Washington should damn well keep quiet until they have a grapefruit or at least something orbiting around up there...
What TV3 was designed to throw into orbit, 300 miles above the earth, was a grapefruit-size space satellite, 6.4 inches in diameter, the U.S.'s first. TV3 was designed as an experimental first step of Project Vanguard, the U.S.'s No. 1 pure-science contribution to the International Geophysical Year. Since the Soviet Sputniks, TV3 had also become the symbol of the U.S.'s determination to get going in the race for the conquest of space; the President himself had called attention to its approximate firing date in a post-Sputnik press conference. But even...
Third Day. The President awakened at 7:40 a.m., got up, showered, shaved himself, breakfasted on half a grapefruit, creamed chipped beef, toast and honey and Sanka. Then he set about bouncing back with a vigor that astonished his staff. In pajamas, beige dressing gown and slippers, he padded about the second floor of the White House, later got dressed in slacks and sweater, settled down to work at his easel on a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II's daughter, Princess Anne. He sought and got his doctor's permission to receive a few official visitors-Nixon, Adams...
...small, patient elephant, he stood there as they watched him, conscious of being the center of a crowded, shoulder-packed stare. He was short, squat, had on a brown, well-cut suit, two Red orders on the handkerchief pocket, and he held a glass of what appeared to be grapefruit juice. Now and then he would whisper conspiratorially to Bulganin or laugh over his shoulder to Mikoyan or talk with proper gravity to the beaming Egyptian War Minister. I elbowed my way in like a diplomat and began working with two cameras strung around my neck. Good-humoredly ignoring...