Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than seven years, during 1,024 hours of successful space flight and thousands of ground tests in pure-oxygen atmospheres, NASA's reasoning seemed sound. There was no apparent need for conversion to a two-gas system-a conversion that would require the complete redesign of the spacecraft and could set the Apollo program back two years. But in 14 terrible seconds at Cape Kennedy, NASA's carefully considered decision has been thrown open to question...
...more or less even terms. Diplomats from neutral nations claim that it will not matter much to them which country gets there first, since the other will probably be close behind. But of course it will matter-though not militarily. The moon, once thought of as invincible "high ground" from which to launch an attack on an earthly enemy, now seems beyond consideration as a rocket base. Any lunar-launched missile would take far longer (16 hours) to reach its target than its earth-based counterpart. It would be harder to guide, easier to detect, and simpler to destroy. Which...
...Harvard squash team methodically ground out a 9-0 win over Dartmouth here yesterday afternoon. The players now turn their attention to Chicago, where sophomore Anil Nayar will compete in the national singles championship, and the next five Crimson players will vie for team honors with the nation's best amateurs...
...reasons vary, Within weeks of the speech the President was caught up in the series of decisions that led to the large-scale introduction of ground forces into Vietnam later that summer. The address at Howard was in a sense his last peacetime speech. Thereafter, one would assume, his mind was increasingly pre-occupied with war in Asia. This did not entail any backtracking on the commitment "To Fulfill These Rights," but it did mean that the White House was not going to think up a program to do so. The energies of that tiny group at the apex...
...villain of the piece is all too clearly the Franco government. Yet as Jorge Semprun's script makes clear, the revolutionists are not precisely heroes either. In the film's most insightful scene, Diego confronts a group of young incendiaries hell-bent on burning Spain to the ground. Both sides are presented as helpless amputees of history; the old rebel has a past but no future, the terrorists a future but no past. Communication is impossible; experience and extremism meet and pull apart without once having touched...