Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty." He had ignored an order from Founder David Packard to stop working on a type of high-quality video monitor. Despite the rebuke, House pressed ahead and succeeded in developing the monitor, which has been used to track NASA's manned moon landings and also in heart transplants. Although there were early estimates that the market for such large-screen displays would be only 30 units, more than 17,000 of them, worth about $35 million, were sold...
...goofily pretentious lecture on the primal significance of dance. From there we go on a whirlwind tour of dance around the world and through the ages, bringing us to the present: Gene Kelly in a New York playground explaining the art of break-dancing. Unfortunately, Gene refuses to moon-walk or spin on his venerable head...
...plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt to ease the Depression and fight World War II. Concern about paying the bills was one of his lesser burdens. It took John Kennedy only a few minutes to decide he could find $40 billion to finance a trip to the moon. Lyndon Johnson's exultation that we could have "guns and butter" was true, though he mismanaged the account...
...attack was carefully timed and meticulously planned. Shortly after midnight under a full moon, small-arms fire began to crackle around the Kampuchean refugee camp and guerrilla base known as Ampil, hard by the border with Thailand. The shooting eventually died away, only to be replaced, just after sunrise, by a thunderous artillery barrage. Plumes of smoke rose from the dusty thatch-and- bamboo compound as heavy Vietnamese guns poured thousands of rounds into the area--"a huge rumbling," as one witness described it, "an explosion not every minute but every second." A dozen Soviet-built T-54 tanks...
...begin using the new telescope in 1992, it will push back the visible limits of the universe by billions of light years. Says Howard Keck, president of the foundation: "I'm told it will permit one to see the light of a single candle from the distance of the moon...