Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this foresight could save us all. Remember that Franklin Roosevelt back in 1939 read a letter from the little man with the funny hair and began the atomic bomb. And one afternoon shortly before the Bay of Pigs in 1961, John Kennedy brushed aside the warnings that a moon shot was a multibillion-dollar, decade-long gamble that might fail. Such decisions dwarf the squabbles of politicians...
...told him seven weeks ago in Aswan, and I hope he will excuse me if I repeat something I told him there, "President Sadat, what you did by coming to Jerusalem I usually refer to as the equivalent of the act of the first man landing on the moon." He enjoyed this very much. But then I told him, "But Mr. President, the first man on the moon came back down to earth. The problem now is how can everyone return to earth and stop orbiting. I think you have to realize, the Egyptians have to realize, that you cannot...
...material from recombinant DNA work from escaping into the environment. NIH officials are confident that the new lab is even more secure than the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, which was built by NASA at a time when it was still thought that astronauts might bring back dangerous bugs from the moon...
...horse he rode in on are blown to shreds, an event that tens of millions get to examine in endless TV replays. It is, notes an L.A. viewer, "the biggest thing that's hit the Hollywood Hills since what's-his-name walked on the moon...
...committee members came away from that encounter looking rather nobler than usual. Commercial TV's record in public affairs, at least as a tactful witness if not as a commentator, has often been good and sometimes distinguished. The networks have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates has raised the tone and self-awareness of the speakers. If the networks established a pool system and followed certain rules of discretion laid down...