Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...across--about half as big as Earth--and the floodplain NASA was aiming for is only 60 miles wide. The barest flutter in the spacecraft's trajectory could have caused Pathfinder to swing far wide of its destination. To prevent the ship from straying too far from its ideal path, the flight plan included five different opportunities for midcourse corrections during which the spacecraft's thrusters could be fired to refine the trajectory. Over the course of the seven months the ship was en route, J.P.L. took advantage of four of those opportunities. When the time came for the fifth...
...only Soviet specialists in musicals were Alexandrov and Ivan Pyriev, the man who made the tractor movies. Pyriev's peasants in Tractor Drivers (1939) sing, "With shellfire thundering and gleaming steel,/ The machines will race ahead to lead the march." In Alexandrov's factory fantasy The Bright Path (1940), workers sing, "Whether you work a machine or break through rocks/ A wonderful dream reveals itself and calls you forward." Naive, yes, but ferociously pertinent for the Russian audience--propaganda in its noblest form...
...yard. Over and over, I tried to go around Friday, but she continued to block me, pushing me back with her chest. Frustrated, I began to cry. My mother had been watching Friday's unusual behavior, and as she approached she saw the reason Friday was blocking my path: a nest of copperhead snakes. Rottweilers have saved many more lives than they have taken. PATTY OXLEY-LEONARD Houston...
...touching example of Washington idealism is the group that might be called celibates of the church of greed: denizens of conservative think tanks who have selflessly devoted their lives, at moderate incomes, to lightening the burden of taxes and regulations on those who've chosen a more self-interested path--including those inside the Other Beltway...
...second option was to accept their interpreted verdict of the nation and ever so softly tap the breaks on the hurtling Republican revolution. If they say "high," say "I'll jump as high as you want." Clinton, wisely, took neither opition. He forged his own path by looking inward and realizing that articulating and trusting in who he was all along was the surest path to success...