Word: matter-of-fact
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This was the moment. He had worked toward it for three years. He had suffered agonies of frustration. Now he was alone, flat on his back on a form-fit couch inside the instrument-packed capsule named Friendship 7. In an incredibly matter-of-fact voice, John Glenn began to count: "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six . . ." A great yellow-white gush of flame spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile...
...risen early on the morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described the tense moments when he was reentering the atmosphere. During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: "I'd think your feet would go to sleep lying there so long." John reassured her that...
...terseness of drama. His dialogue is not literal chatter, it is a precis of real conversation that takes into account the encumbrances of colloquial speech. And while real people can lie successfully, Feiffer's only exist to reveal some truth. On all fours, Richard Simons made a marvelously matter-of-fact Arnold; and Greely Curtis excelled as his Americandream of a father...
...forget the sight of the tense and nervous young man who stood, his white-knuckled hands clutching the sides of his lectern, to face the press and live national TV in his first presidential news conference. His performance-cool, controlled, knowledgeable-was hard to fault, as was his matter-of-fact handling of the return of imprisoned U.S. Airmen Freeman Bruce Olmstead and John McKone (see The Cold...
Come Back, Africa. Filmed in secret and crude in craftsmanship, Lionel (On the Bowery) Rogosin's candid-camera movie manages a fairminded, matter-of-fact look at a modern nightmare: the black depths of South African society...