Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telemetry confirmed that the landing was proceeding according to plan, scientists and spectators at the JPL control center first stared in apparent disbelief. They were well aware that the Russians had failed at least four times before landing an instrument package intact on the moon and that the first seven of the ten planned Surveyor shots had been designated "engineering flights"-a tacit admission that U.S. scientists expected many failures before a successful soft landing was achieved. But when telemetry continued after impact-evidence that Surveyor had survived the landing-disbelief gave way to wild cheering. Half an hour later...
...technician who had the same experience with a pipette. The court was not impressed. In those cases, it said, the claimants faced "special hazard" in using oral tools that were indispensable to their jobs. A truck cab bearing a tuberculous co-worker is no such "instrument of transmission...
...over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past. Now Konrad Adenauer is onstage with the first volume of his memoirs, covering the period from 1945, when Germany lay in ruins, to 1953, when the postwar Wirtschaftswunder dawned. Adenauer's instrument, not surprisingly, is a brisk and Bachlike clavier, well tempered by the author's 90 years...
...student who dropped a note: "Ours is a single-note instrument, so we have to play well one note at a time; every note must be good. You must imagine that you are in an auction, and every single note has to be so good that you can sell it without any argument. Every note must have quality, as if all by itself it is some kind of melody...
William Gordan Jr., an employee of Design Research, Inc., 57 Brattle St., was intercepted by a lone bandit on his way to deposit the company money at the Cambridge Trust Company. He said the robber stuck a blunt instrument in his back at Holyoke St. and Mass Ave. and walked him down to Mt. Auburn St. toward Holyoke Center...