Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weightlessness on humans. Plans also call for the men to release a "pod" with a flashing light, and to practice maneuvering their craft around the pod to get the hang of making a rendezvous with another space vehicle. While in orbit, the astronauts are expected to open a hatch and lean out into space; one of them may actually step out altogether...
...insect is usually permitted to fly free, if only to be victimized by another flower. One erect and fleshy trap flower lets its prisoner fall out by merely drooping its blossom downward. The male part of the jack-in-the-pulpit allows mosquitoes to escape by opening a small hatch. But the mosquito had better be alert; its otherwise identical female part has no such escape hatch...
RONALD R. HATCH Ellicott City...
Switching his tactics, Master Bullitt drove his private elevator, located in the adjacent shaft, down to the basement. Then, by means of a human chain, the trapped students were lifted out of the escape hatch at the top of the "people's elevator" into the neigh boring one. Within fifteen minutes the crippled conveyance had been completely evacuated and Quincy House had returned to normalcy...
...plastic balls fall into a probability curve, follow a feather and a penny as they fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Everywhere, the visitor participates, pushing buttons, pulling levers, yanking chains, turning cranks and talking into phones. He can play ticktacktoe with a computer, watch baby chicks hatch, walk through a throbbing, 16-ft. model of the human heart, see a display that illustrates "everything to do with...