Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon seemed closer than ever last week when the hatch of an Apollo lunar vehicle opened and three smiling astronauts clambered out. In a giant vacuum chamber at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, the bearded, bone-tired trio had just spent eight days simulating a trip to the moon and back. Reported Spacecraft Commander Joseph Kerwin: "A prime reason for the mission was to come back and say 'Yes sir, the darned thing works.' We sure are going to be able to report that...
Werner Bundschuh, a cameraman on loan from Polymer Films, took the pictures while perched in the bomb hatch of a World...
...vast majority of users declare that marijuana is simply an escape hatch, probably no more dangerous-even if less tasty-than alcohol. Smoking pot, they say, should be as socially and legally acceptable as drinking cocktails or highballs. In this they are supported by a growing number of physicians, psychologists, sociologists and criminologists. But they are vigorously opposed by both U.S. and state law-enforcement officers. Notable among these is Commissioner Henry L. Giordano of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who sees the use of marijuana as "a vice which draws with it a train of depravity stretching far into...
...city that led up to street level behind allied lines. Time and again, Communist mortar and rocket fire slammed into the advancing U.S. armor. Sometimes a tank lurched, then treaded wildly through brick walls at streetside, where its crew, one or two of them wounded, would jump from the hatch; another crew would be immediately called...
...Submergence Rescue Vehicle, which will operate at depths as great as 20,000 ft. and be equipped with a pressure chamber large enough to handle four divers. DSRV can be flown to the site of distressed submarines or other submersibles, where it can descend and mate with an escape hatch on the sub, allowing the stranded crew to come aboard...