Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disclosure. He argued that FOBS is considerably less accurate than ICBMs, which was the primary factor in the U.S. decision against building its own FOBS several years ago. Further, he said, the U.S. has developed an over-the-horizon radar capable of tracking a missile from the moment of blast-off at Russia's Tyuratam ICBM complex; the new radar will be fully operational in February and will give Washington 30 minutes' warning of a potential attack. The new three-stage Spartan anti-ballistic missile will also increase U.S. ability to intercept any incoming missile...
...Deux. From the moment of 188's launching, Russian scientists say, computers aboard Cosmos 186, reportedly large enough to carry a crew of five, began the sophisticated automatic process of finding and linking up with Cosmos 188, the passive, beaconlike partner in the space pas de deux. Then, while 188 was still in its first orbit, the two spacecraft oriented their docking mechanisms toward one another. Painstakingly, 186 moved closer. Then, high over the Ascension Island area in the South Atlantic, 186 slipped its pronged nose into a docking collar mounted on 188, linking the electrical circuits...
...moment, however, the strike was not really over. Despite the national settlement, such local issues as overtime and work conditions kept a number of assembly and parts plants closed down, and production was not expected to get into full swing until some time this week...
...devotes a good deal of thought also to the possibilities of psychedelically induced works of art: "If the orgiastic moment were to result in a corresponding intensity of verbal presentation, I would be the first to use psychedelics. But experience suggests otherwise. Inspiration is momentary; after that, what Coleridge calls the 'architectonic' imagination must take over." His own experience with drugs was dissatisfying: "My own brief encounter with mescaline was very much of a withdrawal experience. . . . I like a sense of connection with other people and other things. I like to drink, of course, because of the sense of conviviality...
...feels that Dickey's ultimate concerns are not with the problems of the moment. The more enduring, if less controversial aspect of his poetry is its treatment of man's communion with nature, a theme which he handles with an insight that is unique in modern poetry...