Word: growed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA's space-flight director, Jesse Moore, told the panel that the errant flame was first visible at 59.8 seconds into the flight. Graham explained on TV that the flame "appears to grow and grow . . . until it finally goes to the explosion point." Thus the controllers and astronauts had only 13 seconds to discover the problem and react. But NASA officials testified that escape would have been impossible in any case. Arnold Aldrich, shuttle manager at the Johnson Space Center, told the commissioners that Challenger could not have separated from the boosters and the tank until the solid-fuel rockets...
...homeless problem continues to grow. Cambridge shelters currently turn down 25-35 people a night, and the number of homeless people in the Boston area has nearly doubled, to 9800, in the past two years...
Haiti's crisis last week centered on a family that has used terror and corruption for 28 years to grow wealthy by imposing its will on the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. For the first time in Baby Doc's reign, spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country brought misery-ridden Haiti close to open revolt. Rioters controlled many parts of the countryside, and the government was firmly in control of only the capital...
...asking us to withdraw for a year will make us grow up and stop setting fires. We didn't intend to set any fires," Corcillo said, calling the punishment excessive...
...sport whose participants are usually prep schoolers who grow up to play the sport as yuppies in their exclusive clubs, Jernigan is an anomaly. The Dunster House resident attended a local public school where squash wasn't even offered. Instead, Jernigan participated in track and soccer...