Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, the major burden of the flight will fall on the U.S. ship. Apollo will lift off from Cape Kennedy 7½ hours after Soyuz takes off from the Soviet launch center in Kazakhstan. Once in orbit, Stafford and Copilots Deke Slayton and Vance Brand will begin a round-the-world pursuit of the Soviet ship. Eventually they will dock with it, using a U.S.-built docking system to link the ships together. After the hookup, the Apollo will have to stabilize both craft in orbit since Soyuz is not up to the task...
...cover of the June 24 issue appear these words: NIXON'S TRIP, and beneath them. Seeking a Needed Lift. This is truly malodorous...
Here are more honorable captions that could have been used: they would have been more truthful: 1) Diplomacy at Work, 2) Reasons for It, 3) A Valuable Lift. 4) Praise Where...
...victory for the President would give his cause a tremendous lift. But in the more likely event that the court orders public disclosure of the tapes-and if they provide further damaging evidence-the pressure to remove the President from office would be greatly increased. Any refusal by Nixon to obey the court's order would lead to impeachment and very likely to conviction by the Senate...
...schools, permitted divorce and took steps to legalize bordellos. After 100,000 Catholics demonstrated against these measures in June 1955, the Peronistas retaliated by sacking and burning some of the most beautiful churches in Buenos Aires. The Vatican responded by excommunicating him, a banishment it did not lift until eight years later when he confessed that he had erred by acting against the church...