Word: jackasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half the fuel that a conventional rocket would...
Provocative Pirouettes. Such grandstand plays draw expectable cheers and catcalls from the audience. The Cleve land Plain Dealer referred to Cosell as a "white Muslim," while one sportswriter called him a "screaming, pirouetting jackass." Maury Allen of the New York Post says he is "probably the most dramatic, most interesting, most provocative guy in our business...
...going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass picks his nose, I'm going to write...
...Year of the Monkey sure made monkeys out of U.S. (that's us-you and me, Mr. John Q. Citizen). Hope next year is not the Year of the Jackass...
...finally possible to create intelligent "machines," surely we will try to make them a little better, not a little worse. As for his arguments that animals are just animals, what will he say when biologists, through artificial genetic alteration, bring him face to face with an intelligent jackass? I'm sure the stables will be reversed...