Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty minutes after touchdown the astronauts--Brand, plot Robert Overseer. Allen and Lenior--slapped from-the ship that had been their home for five days. Waving and smiling they bounced jauntily one after the other, down a stair ramp, walked around Columbia and appeared pleased with what they...
...responsible for reconciling the two versions of the 1983 defense authorization bill will almost certainly follow the Pentagon's wishes. Unlike the 747, the C-5B can carry such outsize cargo as M-l and M-60 tanks and self-propelled howitzers, which can easily roll up the ramp on the rear of the C-5B and roll off on the ramp at the front. To load a 747, however, equipment must be hoisted 16 ft. off the tarmac and pushed through nose or side doors...
...since, to some activist feminists, men are suspect as objective journalists. But I encountered no formidable barriers." One singular contribution of women to the story is the artwork: the cover and all the illustrations are the work of women artists, under the direction of Deputy Art Director Irene Ramp...
...American public: Nancy Reagan, attired in brilliant red, gazing admiringly at her husband as he takes the oath of office upon a tattered family Bible: Elizabeth Ann Swift '62, the first hostage to come through the door of the plane, starting down the stairs, hanging back, then descending the ramp, talking and smiling broadly...
...SAYS disabled students can't take a class in the Geological Lecture Rooms? There's no need to climb a single step. Just take the ramp into Tozzer Library, pass from there toward the Peabody Museum, through the museum gift shop, wait for the attendant to unlock the fire door, walk through the museum, and enter the back door of the Geological Lecture Room, Presto...