Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sloshing. Then, with the SIV B in orbit and its engine shut down, the TV screens showed a weird transformation in the fuel tank. Now weightless, globules of liquid hydrogen ripped loose from the churning surface and began to drift upward. Ground controllers immediately radioed signals that opened the SIV B's tank vents, allowing escaping gases to accelerate the vehicle slightly. On the screen, the globs could be seen obediently settling back to the surface. "It looks calm," the controllers reported. "It's behaving itself. There's no sloshing...
...along for a ride when, without warning, he kissed her. Smack! -the car wound up in a canal. Mary sued him for her assorted injuries, and the jury awarded her $7,500. Dismayed, Hodges took his kissing case to Florida's Third District Court of Appeal on the ground that Mary had willingly kissed back with a "reckless disregard for her safety" that made her guilty of contributory negligence and him immune to paying damages. Hodges lost on a technical knockout. When defendants appeal jury verdicts, ruled the court, "all testimony and proper inferences therefrom are required...
Whether the rising sun had warmed the receiver until it drifted back toward its design frequency, Surveyor's ground controllers could not be sure. It was also possible that the craft's batteries had been completely discharged, that they had to wait patiently until solar panels generated enough electrical current to replenish them with a slow, "trickle" charge. Either way, there was no doubt that Surveyor was back in action, leaving JPL with the ironic task of trying to figure out what assignments to give it-the moonship had already done so much that there was little left...
...support before he finally corners and cripples the third and last gunman (Karl Maiden) after joining his band of cutthroats. Nevada Smith unreels in refulgent color against a sweep of rocky crags and sagebrush more magnificent than usual, as though Cinematographer Lucien Ballard had tried to fill the back ground with something that might endure longer than the coarse-grained melodrama up front...
...idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...