Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken for the ship. The recommendation never got past Commander-in-Chief Pacific headquarters. Another copy of the message, addressed to the Chief of Naval Operations, was lost in the Pentagon. Once Pueblo's plight was known, it took Navy officials in Japan more than 40 minutes to reach the Fifth Air Force headquarters in Japan by telephone. The two commands had failed to establish emergency communication procedures in advance...
...event, it was impossible for Fifth Air Force jets stationed on Okinawa to reach U.S.S. Pueblo without refueling in South Korea, an operation that would have taken too long for them to reach the stricken ship in time to help. No fighter planes were in readiness in South Korea to aid U.S.S. Pueblo, a precaution exercised in an earlier spy-ship mission off North Korea...
Despite the undeniable progress of the Apollo postmortem, there were some glitches. A vital rubber glove used to reach into the vacuum chamber holding the lunar rocks and equipment cracked, causing air to rush into the chamber. Two technicians, exposed to lunar material, were quickly placed in quarantine, at least until the astronauts get a clean bill of health. The plumbing presented a more familiar problem. Twice a urinal backed up in an unquarantined section of the spanking new $15.8 million lab. That caused a full day's delay in experiments...
...first words on the moon. Armstrong explained that the article "a" had apparently been lost in transmission back to earth. Thus his statement should read: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The change reflected the humility of the first mortal to reach the moon...
...sort of compromise solution. I was one of those who chose this third way. But it didn't work for me. The censors always managed to bring me to my knees. My anxiety to save at least something from what I had written, so that something would reach the reader, meant only that in the end all mv published writings were neither genuine literature nor utterly contemptible but something in between...