Word: pulley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identified rocks. Unfortunately, with time running out, none of the rocks were actually catalogued. At the urging of controllers ("Head on up the ladder"), the astronauts rolled up the solar wind experiment, placed it in a sample box, sealed both boxes, and hauled them via a clothesline-like pulley into the lunar module. Two hours and 31 minutes after Armstrong first emerged, both men had climbed back inside Eagle, and the hatch was closed...
...mark of distinction. We discuss alternative plans for feeding Low and someone suggests blockading the jocks--"If they run out of beer they're through." In the meantime, hundreds of green armbands (for amnesty) are throwing food up to the Low windows. We decide on a rope and pulley system, between a tree and the Low windows, but there is some question about how to get the line up to the people in Low without the jocks grabbing it. When one kid suggests tying an end to a broom handle and throwing it like a harpoon, John (Outside Agitator) suggests...
...well's pulley creaks...
...After the war, Farouk increased his influence in the Middle East by founding the Arab League. Then his first marriage, to Queen Farida, who had borne him three daughters, broke up, and trusted Hassaneen Pasha died of a heart attack. Hassaneen was replaced by an unsavory crew ranging from Pulley Bey, a former Italian barber and electrician, to Kareem Tabet, a wily Lebanese newsman. Farouk was soon gambling away his nights at the card tables of Cairo's Royal Automobile Club or touring the Riviera circuit, where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more than...
Mitchell had lowered himself to the bottom of the shaft by means of a rope and pulley tied around his midsection. As he attempted to raise himself back to the opening of the chasm, he became stuck...