Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge firefighters used hags filled with compressed air to lift the train off the victim...
...wipe out all the grain growing regions of the United states, Canada and the Soviet Union." A nation launching a first strike will effectively commit suicide regardless of the adversary's response. As Sagan put it in a recent lecture at the Kennedy School, "the attacked nation need not lift a finger for retribution swift and final to fall on the aggressor...
...gremlins that had been so disastrous earlier in the flight struck once more. The astronauts discovered that the shuttle's trusty triple-jointed arm had mysteriously developed a machine's equivalent of arthritis. It could not adequately move its "wrist." The problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space at the end of the arm. While SPAS simulated Solar Max's spin, McCandless was supposed to attach himself to it with a specially designed pin. Unable to cure the arm's ailment, however, the astronauts...
...Physicist Ronald McNair, 33, both satellites were spun perfectly out of Challenger's cargo bay. Even so, there could be serious repercussions for NASA and the U.S. aerospace community. Unless the problem with the little boosters, called PAMs (for payload-assist modules), is resolved soon, some upcoming lift-offs may have to be postponed. PAMs are scheduled to be used for satellite launches in May as the upper stage of a conventional Delta rocket and in June during the maiden voyage of the third shuttle, Discovery. Insurance brokers are now warning of rising premiums, if such policies remain available...
...features a full agenda of experiments, including one intriguing test devised by a high school student to see if zero-g can relieve the agony of arthritic rats in a mid-deck cage. The astronauts will operate the shuttle's sinewy remote-controlled arm, using it to lift out into space a German-built platform known as SPAS (for Shuttle Pallet Satellite), which is loaded with scientific instruments. More significant, they are slated for a two-day game of tag with a 6½-ft.-diameter Mylar balloon. As the sphere drifts as far as 120 miles away...