Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost it." Then the hatch clanged shut, arid soon Vostok II lifted through the clear...
Produced for a doctoral thesis at Columbia University, the result is a huge black notebook composed of pages and pages of numbers-a coded guide to all 157 varieties of syllabic patterns in the Iliad's 112,000 words and 15,693 lines. McDonough can now say, for example, that the poem's most common syllabic pattern is a word of one short followed by two long syllables appearing at the end of a line, in 6,344 lines or 40.42% of the total lines. Sample: 'Απολλων'(Apollo...
Wherever John Kennedy goes these days, a large, black, looseleaf notebook goes with him. The notebook is the President's "Berlin Book," consisting of 20 position papers on all possible phases of the persistent peace-or-war question that Kennedy must eventually answer. In the White House, and last weekend on another brief vacation in Hyannisport. John Kennedy spent hours over his homework. Never before, said his aides, had the President spent so much time and thought contemplating the implications of a single question. "He's imprisoned by Berlin." said one Cabinet member. "Ever since his Europe trip...
Nights, the two men lie in rat-infested village huts, hating each other. Days, they struggle on in a chorus of mutual complaint. Without quite meaning to, McNair takes over the physical and mental leadership. Mukasa regresses into a childish envy. He steals McNair's fountain pen, notebook and aspirin, or perversely argues that Africans are obviously "inferior" to Europeans. McNair is at last goaded into shouting at Mukasa, "You god-damned black monkey...
...While in the state of weightlessness, I ate and drank, and everything occurred just as it does on earth. I even worked in that condition. I wrote, jotting down my observations. My handwriting did not change, although the hand did not weigh anything, but I had to hold the notebook. Otherwise it would have floated away. I maintained communications over different channels and tapped the telegraph...