Word: passageways
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...opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts of a simpler solution to docking or passageway problems when they return to the command module in the spacecraft designed to carry them to and from the lunar surface...
...machines responsible for this noise come from the Dematteo Construction Company, which was hired by Harvard to build a huge underground passageway for cars just north of the Yard so that students could walk to Memorial Hall and the Law School without encountering the traffic...
...Suez Canal, now blocked at both ends by scuttled Egyptian ships. Though Cairo says that they will not be removed until the Israelis retreat, the fact is that the Egyptians need the earnings of the canal ($250 million a year) as much as other nations need the passageway. Egypt's economy is a shambles, and the war has gravely worsened it. The nation has a foreign debt of more than $1 billion, an annual trade deficit of $500 million, and more than half of its cotton crop-its principal export-is mortgaged to Communist-bloc nations...
...night before the Princeton meet, Schollander had expressed a slight concern about its outcome. Straight through the dark passageway connecting the swimming locker room to the Yale training table, Schollander mentioned a few of the toughest Tigers but then smiled confidently as he thought of his own powerful team...
Though the Second Pyramid was built by Cheops' son, only one passageway has been discovered leading into it; only one burial chamber has been found and no networks of corridors similar to those in Cheops have ever been located...