Word: overly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NASA used similar generators on 22 space missions, but no one paid much attention until the Challenger tragedy dramatized the risks of space launches. The space agency admits that there have been three accidents involving RTG- powered vehicles. The most significant was in 1964, when a satellite launched by the...
In another episode Corky gets a chance, over some parental reservations, to baby-sit for a six-year-old boy. Again credibility is dashed by melodramatic overkill. That night the fire department has to evacuate the house because of a gas leak. When a neighbor driving them to a nearby...
But those measured words came too late for the East Germans who had already opted to make a run for a better life in the West. Last week alone some 8,200 fled, raising the total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at...
So had enough other young men, women and children to turn a trickle of refugees into a torrent, pouring out of every crack they could find in the crumbling Iron Curtain. The first route, through Hungary, has largely shut down since East German officials cut back on exit permits to...
It took the Breite family barely 24 hours to abandon everything they knew and bolt for a new life in the West. Though their discontent had been brewing for years, Olaf, 28, and Marlies, 26, had never seriously contemplated leaving their East German village of Schonermark, near Potsdam, until Sept...