Word: hoists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the shuttle's cost overruns have caused penny pinching on other scientific projects, the future in space should now brighten for scientists, even if their experiments must ride on military flights. In 1985, the shuttle is scheduled to hoist a large, remote-controlled telescope into orbit high above the earth's obscuring atmosphere. From there, astronomers should be able to see out 14 billion light-years (seven times farther than they can see using the biggest earthbound reflectors), expanding the volume of the known universe about 350-fold and bringing them very close to what is presumed...
...workers marched across Paris to the historic Place de la Bastille. Many carried banners with familiar bread-and-butter Slogans: WE WANT HOUSING AND JOBS and PRODUCE FRENCH. Caravans of buses filled with activists poured in from the provinces. With rope and tackle, a mountain climber managed to hoist a red flag to the summit of the square's monumental central column, where it fluttered from the arms of a winged figure. Finally the party's pugnacious leader, Presidential Candidate Georges Marchais, rose to address the cheering throng...
...president fell asleep after an hour so he missed seeing Robert de Niro hoist his Oscar for best actor into the air and tell the audience he was especially glad to win the award in the face of "all the bad things in the world." De Niro's Oscar came for an unusually violent role--boxer Jake La Motta in Martin Scorsese's "Raging Bull" : but the actor had no idea of the role he would come to have in the previous day's violence. The morning after the Academy Awards, newspapers published the hypothesis of federal investigators that...
...never make it," she gasped. "Then at about 300 pulls, I got my second wind and kept going all the way." Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait for a ladder, so he shinnied ten feet up a pole to reach the halyard and hoist the U.S. flag over the statehouse in Boston. In Mountain Home, Idaho, some 200 townspeople staged an impromptu parade, driving their cars three abreast, headlights on and horns blaring. Patrolman Joseph McDermott coasted his cruiser to the side of a street in Rochester, N.H., fighting back tears. Said...
Although they have initiation rituals and secret passwords, and they hoist a skull-and-cross bones up their flag pole each day, the Brothers do not run an Animal House operation. No brassieres hang from the bannisters, no motorcycles are driven through the dining room. By 7 p.m. most weekday evenings a hush falls over the carpeted upstairs hallways and regal, mahogany-trimmed smoking rooms. No one is gatoring to "Louie Louie" under the 25-ft. dinner table or filling water balloons on the roof. If you plan to remain at MIT for any length of time as a student...