Word: moments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cockpit, Captain Kimes felt "a severe shudder," accompanied by the muffled roar of an explosion. His eyes swept the instrument panel in front of him, stopped at the altimeter, which showed 700 ft. and climbing. At the same moment, Flight Engineer Fitch Robertson called out: "We have lost power on No. 4," meaning the right outboard engine of the plane's four fan jets. As Kimes reached for his controls, the huge jet yawed wildly to the right. A fire-alarm bell sounded, and a red warning light flashed on the instrument panel, indicating that No. 4 engine...
Died. Murray Ireland, 72, president from 1954 to '60 of McGraw-Edison's Toastmaster division, a designer-engineer who in 1925 adapted for domestic use a bulky device formerly found only in restaurants, which lowered a slice of bread, grilled it, and at just the right moment popped it up, golden brown (or black), bringing sales of untold millions over the next 39 years; of a heart attack; in Elgin...
...unison, lifting the whole package clear of its umbilical tower in four seconds. After 108 sec., with the Titan already 28 miles up, the reddish, rubberlike solid fuel burned out and the core rocket roared to life with 470,000 Ibs. of high-altitude thrust. This was the crucial moment, but the change from solids to liquids went off without a hitch. Then 12 minutes after ignition, the third-stage liquid-fuel rocket fired a 21,000-lb. dummy payload into orbit...
...just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky, tenacious, she proceeds moment by moment from incredulity to seductiveness to violence to the awful realization that she is merely a bright ephemeral at the mercy of a man who extinguishes living beauty as a pastime...
...Inevitably, the tedeschi leave a voluptuous collaborator (Raffaella Carra) reclining in the caboose. Sinatra spurns her advances, and when she tries to escape, he regretfully mows her down, simultaneously thumbing his nose at his own public image and giving this rolling-stock melodrama at least one swift, strong, indisputable moment of truth...