Word: marvellously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of your unfactual article, the Lear Fan will become not only a technological marvel but a commercial one as well-thanks to the foresight of my father, the dedication of my stepmother Moya, and especially the 275 buyers who have provided a backlog of orders totaling $350 million for what you have mistakenly called a "commercial misfit...
Whether he knew it or not, Professor Kistiakowsky helped me to find ways to be and feel more socially responsible. During the winter of my sophomore year, with his encouragement, I began to volunteer at the Council's Boston office. I still work there and continue to marvel at the way the patient, hardworking and dedicated staff make great efforts in the cause of peace everyday. Professor Kistiakowsky had great faith in this organization, in the way it brings scientific and political experts together and in its ability to provide a means for scientific experts to educate the public. Under...
...lackey, the featherbrained Putzi Hanfstaengl, Hitler also adored whistling. His best numbers were Harvard fight songs, which Putzi, a Harvard alumnus, would thump on the piano whenever the Fiihrer was in a frisky mood. After the war, whenever Putzi was asked what Hitler was like, he never failed to marvel how that man could whistle...
...today's communications satellites seem like fast talkers, the next generation will be positively garrulous. Intelsat VI, the 38.7-ft.-long, $100 million marvel of electronics under construction by the Hughes Aircraft Co., will handle as many as 37,000 telephone calls and four television channels simultaneously. The bird's power comes entirely from the sun, whose rays will be captured by 19,000 solar cells encircling the cylindrical satellite and converted directly into electricity...
When the Columbia space shuttle rises from its Kennedy Space Center launch pad this week, some anxious businessmen in the U.S. and Canada will be glued to their television sets, and not just to marvel as the reusable spacecraft's twin Thiokol rockets thrust it up and over the blue Atlantic. The launch, fifth in the Columbia series, will be the first in which the shuttle begins earning money from private, corporate customers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...