Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built by Fairchild Hiller Corp., for detecting micrometeoroids. Pegasus' 208 rectangular panels are covered on both sides with thin sheets of copper and aluminum separated by plastic. The metal sheets are electrically charged, but normally no current flows between them. When a micrometeoroid penetrates the aluminum, it will punch a hole in the plastic and fill the hole with metal vapor that is a good conductor of electricity. Although the gas will dissipate quickly, there will be time for a brief pulse of electricity to cross the barrier and inform the satellite's electronic brain. Instruments...
Penn currently ranks third in the Ivy League with a 7-2 record and is 12-8 overall. The backbone of the Quaker offense is their brilliant one-two punch of forward Stan Pawlak and guard Jeff Neuman...
...voted for Patterson, 6 to 5 (one even), and the judges made it unanimous by a wide margin. Patterson had been rocked by solid punches to the head; the skin around his kidneys was covered with bloody welts. "I kept telling myself, 'You can't be knocked out, you can't be knocked out,' " he said afterward. He talked longingly about a title fight with Clay and another shot at Liston, and chided sportswriters who predicted that Chuvalo would put him down as soon as he tapped him on his china chin. "I proved that...
While Harvard goalie Bill Fitzsimmons put up a defensive wall in front of the nets, Gordie Price and Pete Waldinger provided the offensive punch. Price picked up one goal and assisted in two others, and Waldinger had a hand in three of the five Crimson goals scored...
...style either unrecognized or despised by a wide cross section of American liberals: that of the small-town Protestant worthy. Before jumping to the conclusion that therefore he is not big enough for the job. the scoffers should recall that Lincoln was called a "baboon" by Punch...