Word: low
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision is to be made when Skylab falls to a height of about 90 miles above earth, some twelve hours before estimated reentry. At that point the controllers could use some of the 6,000 remaining pounds of fuel to rotate the craft into various nose-forward, "low drag" positions, in the hope that this would prolong Skylab's life by anywhere from one to five more orbits. By contrast, a second option would be to send the vehicle into an early tumble, which would cut from one to three orbits from its natural, uncontrolled reentry. A third option would...
Where governments have legislated maximum speeds, enforcement has frequently proved difficult. On expressways in Portugal (75 m.p.h.) and The Netherlands (62 m.p.h.) the new limits have been consistently flouted. Only Norway has been successful in keeping its motorists on a low 56-m.p.h. mark, sometimes by suspending violators' licenses on the spot...
...census showed 530,000 unmarried male-female couples living together. Even then, the figure seemed unrealistically low, since many couples may have been too embarrassed to report such arrangements. Now the bureau lists 1.1 million "illicit" couples, with the sharpest rise occurring since 1977 in the under-25 category. Reasonably enough, the demographers attributed the trend to "an increasing desire among young adults to pursue nonfamilial interests...
...first and easiest impression of Parker-both on records and in performance-is of a spoiler, full of challenge and low-slung, bemused carnality. "When the world is dead, I'm gonna make the bed/ With the hotel chambermaid ... Gonna shut the bellboy out tonight" runs one of his earlier odes to one-stop sex. Many of his best tunes, like Fool's Gold, portray quite another character entirely, a knight-errant on a lonely and probably hopeless quest for a shopworn Grail: "I'm a fool, so I'm told/ I get left...
...queens sometimes get their wealthy admirers to buy for them so that the camera may once again be permitted to adore them. In particular, this star seems to labor under the delusion that it is not so much her face as her bottom that is her fortune-so many low angles of it upturned and bouncing about are featured. It's not a bad bottom, but you can't really make a movie of it. You can make a good movie that allows Streisand to employ fully her unquestioned gifts as singer and comedienne. But first...