Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles per hour, then bouncing like a basketball up to as much as 150 feet in the air until coming to rest. Still, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were pleased. "It's been wonderfully dull," Flight Director Rob Manning said after the lander completed its seven-month journey. Whether the craft survived the impact intact was not immediately known, but NASA received radio signals from the Martian surface that suggested that it landed in the best position, with its base petal on the ground. Scientists were also happy that the lander came within 12 miles of the target point...
...where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was four, leaving him in the care of her sister and brother-in-law Bertha and James Louis. At six, he moved with them to Bremerton, Wash.--a journey made difficult by segregation laws that shut them out of hotels, rest rooms and diners--and later to Sacramento, where Connerly's uncle worked in a lumberyard. As a child, Connerly found work running errands, helping a carpenter, hawking ice water to laborers. "I was a little hustler," he says...
...going to be the congressional inquest of the decade. A journey deep into the addled soul of American politics. More FBI agents on board than tracked down John Dillinger. Enough big donors under oath to fill out a fund raiser. Even a man from Watergate swinging the gavel. It would be must-see TV: Big Fred Thompson and his Donorgate hearings...
Jacob was fired in 1987 and fled to the United States. John and his mother managed to obtain passports four years later. Their journey was nerve-wracking, as they hid visas in their backpacks and prayed they wouldn't be detained by border patrol officers. They reunited with Jacob after renouncing their Soviet citizenship upon arriving in New York City...
Even then it took No. 4 North Carolina to bring the journey to an end. That loss, however, does not detract from what this team accomplished. There were many questions facing the Crimson back in November; by January the team had not only answered those questions, but was well on its way to making history...