Word: pinked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earth-shaking roar that assaulted the senses and numbed the minds of the 500,000 spectators gathered on nearby Florida beaches and highways. As the Apollo 17 Saturn rocket began to lift ponderously from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A, the entire sky was filled with an orange-pink glow, a false dawn against which gulls and pelicans wheeled and fluttered in aimless confusion. The awesome spectacle marked a fitting beginning to the mission of Apollo 17, which at week's end was approaching the moon, carrying Astronauts Gene Cernan, Jack Schmitt and Ron Evans on what...
...north, both eager for money, we carried doubles, two golf bags simultaneously, 54 holes a day, all summer and spring and fall week-ends for 3 years. I worked for an incomprehensible college education somewhere in the future and a pair of black levis and a new pink shirt; and Dave worked because mother made him; they were building a new garage in the back of the $21,000 one-story home and she wanted the money and if it rained and Dave didn't bring home enough she beat him until his lips cracked. And now I was going...
...After graduating from the University of Kansas, where he held an NROTC scholarship, he won his wings at Pensacola, Fla. Subsequently he flew 100 carrier missions off Indochina and became the first Viet Nam veteran in the astronaut ranks. A modish dresser (typical garb: white slacks, maroon sports jacket, pink tie and shirt), he is married and the father of two children: a daughter, 13, and a son, 11. As pilot of the command ship America, he will remain in orbit around the moon while Schmitt and Cernan explore the lunar surface. Unlike earlier command pilots, he will...
Gallo Hearty Burgundy Chablis Blanc Pink Chablis...
...quietly in houses on the Modesto vineyard. They arrive at the office at precisely 8 a.m., spend the day in frequent communication with each other, and knock off at 7 p.m. When the Gallos entertain, usually for visiting company executives, they serve only their own wines-a white, a pink, a red and a champagne. Says Ernest: "Only when Mrs. Gallo and I are at home alone, which is not very frequently, will I drink my competitors' wines in order to follow their progress." Ernest and Julio are both at the age when many men retire, but they have...