Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between two rocket sections. This time the problem was in a flexible boot ring that helps anchor the swiveling rocket nozzle to the rigid booster case. Nearly half of the ring, which is 8 in. wide, 2 in. thick and 8 ft. in diameter, broke away during the horizontal ground test; some pieces were found inside the booster. The nozzle had been deliberately shifted 7 degrees, just 1 degrees short of its maximum movement...
Glasnost is nice, but it takes a vast network of satellites, ground stations and seismic detectors to make the world safe for arms control...
Gulf-based Arab diplomats and council officials said the Iranians have said they are willing to open a dialogue and hold back on their long-anticipated ground offensive...
Obviously, this process is complicated by the fact that the clubs are not officially affiliated with the university. In 1984, Harvard told the clubs they had to go co-ed or go private. The offer, while it allowed Harvard to claim the moral high ground, protected the clubs from the rigors of integration. That Harvard did not force its finals clubs to go co-ed suggests some rather dubious intentions on the part of the administrators responsible for student life...
...many strangers have dropped by my hotel, how many fathers have offered to pay me money to teach their boys the knuckleball. 'Can you at least show me how to grip it?' they say. But I'd have to take them all out singly to a little patch of ground in the backyard, back to the coal-mining fields in Ohio." By way of a video, he is contemplating doing just that...