Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to speak at commencements," Stone said, "without talking a load of crap. It's a terrible genre." Stone said he would "sleep on it" and respond to the invitation within twenty-four hours...
...reserves. Aramco's average well yields 12,000 bbl. per day, as compared with the average U.S. well's 18 bbl. Its refinery and port complex at Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf can turn out more product (600,000 bbl. per day), store more oil and load more supertankers than any other facility on the globe...
...since the beginning of the year, and a general strike has crippled the country's economy. Bananas, one of Grenada's major exports, lie rotting in the fields, and nutmeg and cocoa, the two other principal crops, are piled up in warehouses with no one to load them onto ships. Britain prudently cancelled the scheduled visit of Prince Richard of Gloucester, a representative of the Queen, to the independence ceremonies and alerted a warship to stand by to evacuate foreigners in case of violence. The U.S. State Department advised Americans to look for another tourist paradise. Tourism, which...
...Endorsed creation of a new National Court of Appeals to hear certain kinds of cases and render decisions that would be final unless the Supreme Court intervened within a set period of time. The aim is to reduce the high court's work load. Many delegates wanted to table the matter, but Smith persuaded them to take a firm stand in support of the idea...
...this followed a very shaky start. Pogue and Carr came down with motion sickness shortly after liftoff. Pressing hard to keep up with their heavy work load, the astronauts bungled several experiments and misunderstandings arose between crew and Mission Control. That, in turn, raised concern among NASA officials about the ability of the men to endure prolonged isolation and weightlessness. To compound those troubles, one of the space station's three stabilizing gyroscopes broke down and another periodically faltered -threatening the photographic studies of sun and earth, which require an extremely stable vantage point. Finally, the crew grew...