Word: loft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians after being analyzed.) Because of the inherently high velocity of any object in orbit, most pieces of space junk are consumed in their fiery plunge through the earth's atmosphere. But as man launches more and more satellites and probes-the Japanese are scheduled to loft their first satellite this week-the danger, however small, will obviously increase. The U.N. conferees have agreed that the launching nation should be liable for any damage inflicted by a satellite dropout, and both Russia and the U.S. have promised to accept liability without the customary court showing of negligence...
Lights flicker from the OppOsite lOft; In this-room the hEatpipes Just oOugh; The cOuntry-music stAtion plays sOft But there's nOthing, rEally nOthing tO tUrn Off, Just Louise--and her lOver--sO Entwined And these visions--of JohAnna--that cOn--quer mY mind...
...Ireland's Malahide Castle, at intervals between 1925 and 1941, Boswell's descendants discovered a vast mass of manuscript stacked in a hideous old ebony cabinet, in the moldy loft of a barn, in an ancient croquet box. It was the literary find of the century: thousands of Boswell's letters, notes for the Life and drafts of it in his own hand, above all the manuscript of his masterpiece-the voluminous journal he kept for 35 years. Published in seven installments between 1950 and 1963, the Journal (which sold 2,500,000 copies) dramatically transformed...
...helium or whip manufacturers have called up for the artist's endorsement, and what Andy really wants is to lend his name to some nice Manhattan restaurant, which in turn would agree to keep him and his entourage in sandwiches and beer up in his loft. But kindly don't send any of those canvas Oldenburgers...
...groups is second only to the battle of the sexes as the stuff of which life and plays are made. William Goodhart makes it laughing matter in a lighthearted comedy about a doting father (Henry Fonda) who finds his daughter and her nonconformist husband living in a Greenwich Village loft and-much to dad's discomfort-liking...