Word: prosaic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmanned Gemini capsule that descended on the desolate scrub outside Fort Hood, Texas, had not even come close to orbit. It had simply been car ried aloft by an Air Force C-119 trans port and cut loose at the relatively low altitude of 11,000 ft. But the prosaic flight was an effort to answer important questions' Can capsules such as Gemini be brought down to soft landings on hard ground, and can future astronauts be given any control over the point of impact? To both questions the answer was an impressive...
...artist to see the lyrical in the prosaic is comprehensible, and perhaps the essence of his trade-but the other way around? Moreau is a lovely woman, not a sloe-eyed Orphan Annie advertising 50 cigars to the 12th century. Please, next time find someone who can draw...
Plywood, that prosaic sandwich of wood and glue, was long a low-prestige commodity used chiefly in such things as panel doors, ping-pong tables and bureau-drawer bottoms. No longer. Glamorized almost beyond recognition, it has taken on fancy surfaces, been merged with other materials and found its way into such diverse places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record...
...Many a Christian, disgusted by prosaic sermons, repelled by archaic dogma and beset by honest doubts, will find renewed hope in your Dec. 25 issue. No reform-social, political or religious-filters down from the top; it rises from the bottom, out of an undeniable need. For Christians of all sects your article has brought that need into sharp focus...
...when this climactic encounter is interrupted by a uniformed station attendant who sings: "Shall I fill it up, Madame? Super or standard?" The sound of Muzak lyricism in the score is for the most part standard. There are no songs as such, but the script, in rhyme translated by prosaic subtitles, weaves themes of love and despair into insistent patter music that accompanies every utterance from "Je suis enceinte, Maman" to "pass the sugar...