Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their time making better, stronger American rock 'n' roll than Creedence Clearwater Revival. From 1968 through 1972, Creedence made seven albums that grossed worldwide upwards of $150 million. Fogerty wrote and sang nine Top Ten singles in a period of three years. He had served a hitch in the Army Reserve in 1967, and Run Through the Jungle and Fortunate Son may have been the first songs about Viet Nam that sounded as if they could have been sung by soldiers as well as peace marchers...
...sell them (price: $35 million apiece). As they walked in space last week, Astronauts Allen and Gardner indulged in some Madison Avenue pizazz, jokingly holding a FOR SALE sign over one of the recaptured birds. NASA hopes the mission will put it into the satellite recovery business. A major hitch, of course, is that the shuttle can only climb to 500 miles, while many of the most important satellites are 22,300 miles up in geostationary orbit-that is, rotating with the earth and staying at a fixed point in the heavens. To put satellites into the higher orbit...
...Kenai Peninsula, their original destination, only to discover that good unclaimed land there was hard to come by. Then they heard about the west bank of the Susitna: rich, available farmland, with a marvelous view-on clear days-of Mount McKinley and the Alaska Range. There was a hitch: there were no roads into the area and no bridges. In winter you could walk across the frozen river; in summer you could take a boat. But during the spring breakup and the autumn freeze-up the only way you could cross the Susitna was to hire Bush Pilot Don Sheldon...
Henry's Hideaway opened without a hitch. Parishioners paid $5 each for membership in the private club, a card that says on the back, "Many people make Henry's Hideaway a happy place by coming. Others by leaving," and the privilege of purchasing beer or wine for $ 1, mixed drinks for $1.25. Father Jim, as Reynolds is called, anticipated the puns, so the first drinkers had to endure the priest's own pre-emptive patter: holy water on the rocks; Blue Nun; we specialize in Christian Brothers. The bar rolled merrily along until midsummer, when a sorehead...
...seen. Hours later the crew got down to work, releasing a Satellite Business Systems Comsat, the first of three communications devices to be deployed. The 1,069-lb. cylinder, to the intense relief of everyone involved, went toward its proper geosynchronous orbit 22,300 miles above earth without a hitch: the payload assist module (PAM) used for the launching was the same kind of device that had shoved two satellites into uselessly low orbits last February. A second satellite was sprung successfully on Friday, this one employing the new so-called Frisbee launcher. The mechanism, designed especially for the shuttle...