Word: maneuverer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rendezvous. Gemini's primary purpose is to practice rendezvous in earth orbit, a job of navigation and maneuver that will be controlled largely by ground-based computers. Only after the Gemini capsule and its target satellite have come within sight or radar range of each other will the pilot...
Demand. Kennedy's course carried with it the obvious risk of casualties and finally, after a week of talk and maneuver, an Air Force reconnaissance plane was lost. But the flights went on as the U.S. prepared to move against Cuba if Khrushchev did not destroy his missiles.
Blackman let his second unit maneuver to the Dartmouth 40, but reinstalled King and his first-string friends at the start of the final period. Trying to ice the game with a long pass, King was temporarily repressed by the Crimson defense sparked by Hudepohl and Brad Stevens.
Something Lacking. The Indianapolis News dug up a speech that Congressman Kennedy made 13 years ago and threw it back at him: "The very blunders you denounced in 1949 are continuing under your own regime. In Laos, your Administration has executed a maneuver identical to that you denounced in China...
Europe last week seemed like Cassandra's backyard. Imminent and grave crisis was predicted over Berlin (see following story). Yet the relentless logic of the cold war suggested that while the danger was considerable, the Russians really had little room for maneuver if the West stood firm.