Word: nick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pioneering days of manned space flight, U.S. astronauts began affectionately bestowing names such as "Molly Brown" on their spacecraft. But NASA officials soon decided that nick names were undignified for craft involved in a historic national effort. Word went out to put an end to name-call ing. Even official labels had to be made more solemn. On the theory that Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was too frivolous a name for the moon-landing craft, NASA gravely renamed it Lunar Mod ule, thus reducing the friendly LEM to the unpronounceable...
...strength of their three good lines wore down the Brown team. Bob Havern lit the light at 5:40 with Dave Cavanagh and Dennis Sullivan getting the assists. Sullivan scored his second goal four minutes later to put Harvard ahead. The clinching goal was off the stick of Nick Sullivan with Howie Sullivan and Red Jahacke getting the assists...
Harvard will be looking to overall team depth and the scoring punch of the sophomore line of DeMichele-Cavanagh-Owen. Penn, still looking for its first Ivy win, has a young team which has done better in outside competition, beating St. Nick's and winning a Pennsylvania hockey tournament...
Bitter Brawl. Enter Hughes. His of fer last August of $22 a share, or about $94 million, set off a turbulent board room brawl. Air West Chairman Nick Bez, 73, former head of West Coast and a generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest...
Hammett established a character type that dominated American mystery writing, and still reappears in one form or another in James Bond, Matt Helm, and the rest of the gang. But Hammett's characters, Sam Spade, Nick Charles, and the others, were different from their modern apostles. Because they were more than detectives, smart, tough guys. They were people that you really wanted to meet, to talk to, to learn from, and later go with to the local bar and have a great time...