Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What happened was mostly playing it by ear." That's mainly how Space Hero Glenn himself played it. While Incumbent Young relaxed, Glenn telephoned at least 70 convention delegates. Because Glenn is still a Government employee (his resignation from the Marine Corps will be effective March 1), the Hatch Act precluded active convention politicking. But he received a stream of delegates in his hotel suite, where he signed autographs, flashed his famous grin and made his pitch...
Once in orbit, the astronauts riding the Gemini's cramped capsule will open a hatch in the heat shield and crawl into the lab, where efficient life-support equipment will let them safely shuck their cumbersome space suits. They will have plenty of room to move around, and by making due allowance for zero gravity, they will be able to perform elaborate and delicate tasks. After several weeks in the lab, they will return to the capsule and close the hatch in the heat shield. After detaching the MOL and leaving it in orbit, they will ignite their retrorockets...
Often Mme. Nhu's imperfect English got her into jams. But she also used it as a handy escape hatch when her more acid quotes backfired. At first she denied that she had ever described American troops in South Viet Nam as "soldiers of fortune." Said she: "I have a very rich vocabulary, but that word I have never used." But a couple of days later she reversed herself, said that she had indeed used the words-though in a complimentary sense, to denote "self-made heroes." Explaining her macabre comment about "these Buddhist barbecues" after the suicides...
...Escape Hatch. For centuries, says Sartre, despite the Christian doctrine that man is born with the capacity for evil, men have tended to protect themselves from facing the fact by pretending that evil is mainly outside them. If a man does anything wrong, he prefers to believe that it is the result of the Devil's temptations or the corrupting power of society around him. Evil is always "the Other...
Genet had no such metaphysical escape hatch. At the moment when he was denied by his foster parents, he was utterly without resources or the ability to judge himself. His fate was fixed. If parents and society cast him out, he must be guilty. His subsequent pursuit of depravity was ignited by a strange motive. By doing evil, he would discover the evil that he had been told possessed...