Word: hurriedness
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I just hurried away, up the stairs and into Lamont. Down and up more stairs looking for a familiar face. I had yet to find one when I passed an elevator door sliding open. The two men were inside. They knew it was me, I knew it was them, and...
At length Toad could see his own changes of mood in the handwriting. He could read haste when he had hurried. He thought that handwriting would make a fine lie-detector test, or a foolproof drunkometer. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.
Washington was comfortable and smug on the night of Oct. 5, 1957, as its scientists gathered in planning sessions for the International Geophysical Year. They were certain they would dominate the global experiments. Along with experts from a dozen other nations, the Americans assembled at the Soviet embassy on 16th...
John Hagen, the gentle astronomer who was heading the American space probe, Project Vanguard, puffed his pipe in his dingy corner of the Naval Research Laboratory and foresaw the coming competition. But his soul was geared to an earlier age, and his rocket remained rooted to its Cape Canaveral pad...
Air Force One had just lifted off around 9 a.m., winging President Reagan and his entourage from Washington to Houston to attend the Challenger crew's memorial service, when Larry Speakes hurried to the press compartment at the rear of the aircraft. "The White House was informed shortly before 7...