Word: path
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Navigational data that the astronauts gathered will help NASA scientists plot Apollo's orbit more precisely than they could by tracking it from earth. Once the rises and dips in Apollo's orbital path have been identified, the scientists will be able to map their cause: variations in the lunar gravitational field believed to be caused by concentrations of massive material beneath some craters and seas. With better knowledge of the gravitational field, NASA will be able to plan more accurately the paths of future landing missions, on which errors of only a few feet could be dangerous...
...deal with ferocious Italian partisans. One group, armed with parachuted weapons, carried on by blasting freight trains and ambushing German patrols in and around Monte Sole, the most prominent peak of a collection of modest Apennines 15 miles south of Bologna. Because Monte Sole lay directly in the "path of Kesselring's retreat route, its partisans represented a serious threat to orderly German withdrawal...
...moved 50 feet ahead of it, then turned to inspect it. After sending the S-4B off into orbit around the sun, Apollo was to continue coasting toward the moon, firing its engine briefly only if a mid-course correction was needed to put the craft precisely on its path...
...reduce life to a set of abstractions. Communists, he wrote, reminded him of Jean Jacques Rousseau, who took a prostitute to his room in Venice. "When they lay down in bed and she got undressed," Kazantzakis writes, "poor Jean Jacques began begging her to take the straight and narrow path...
While the announcement indicates the direction of Rockefeller's political future, it also throws a temporary roadblock in the path of New York City's Mayor John Lindsay. At the moment, Lindsay's popularity in the city is at a low ebb, and the Governor's office would have been an attractive alternative should his citywide appeal continue to diminish. The. Rockefeller decision eliminates that alternative. Moreover, the mayor would probably have little chance of dislodging fellow Republican Charles E. Goodell from his Senate seat. What ever his prospects in the next two years, Lindsay...