Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craft designed to carry men into the space age have had the clean-lined look of the Mercury and Gemini capsules. By comparison, the lunar module (LM) that lifted from Cape Kennedy last week was the ugliest of ducklings. Bulging and misshapen, bristling with squiggles of antennas, the LM seemed more the creation of scientists gone mad than a craft entrusted with Project Apollo's most crucial task: to land astronauts on the moon and lift them off again. But in a seven-hour test flight, LM last week performed like a full-fledged space swan...
...hole" situation in which astronauts descending toward the moon in the LM are suddenly forced to return to the orbiting mother ship, controllers again fired the descent engine. While it was burning, they also fired the 3,500-lb.-thrust ascent engine, which will be used to lift the astronauts off the surface of the moon. Blasting its flame directly into a depression atop LM's descent stage, the engine separated the ascent stage-consisting of the ascent engine and the two-man LM cockpit-and pulled it away from the descent stage. In one final burn, controllers fired...
...manager, who should be appointed by mid-April, will probably receive more than the manager's previous top salary of $20,000. A bill has been filed in the state legislature to lift the limit on the salary...
...Toscanini was in his, although, as Bernstein nears 50, even he is slackening his frenetic pace somewhat. In this image-conscious culture, every orchestra wants its conductor to have some of Bernstein's incalculable personality force-what Conductor Charles Munch calls the "magic emanation" that can lift a conductor's performances above the mere exercise of knowledge and professional skill...
Each skier will be charged ten dollars --covering transportation, lift fees, hot chocolate and beer--for the trip which will return to Cambridge by 7 p.m. Wednesday night...