Word: reared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tubing from the pilot's seat, they discovered a small, lead-scarred dent caused by a bullet. Said the report: "Measurements place the bullet indentation directly in line of fire between the captain's back and anyone standing in the aisleway between and slightly to the rear of the captain's and first officer's seats...
There he was, a stolid figure in the rear of an open car, his eyes downcast, a study in dejection. He rode in dour silence to the Capitol while Presidentelect Franklin Roosevelt, sitting beside him, smiled that famous smile and waved to the cheering throngs...
Dietz climbed behind a podium at the rear of the hall and continued. "My program began last March. I am a citizen of Cambridge. I live in Cambridge. I am intensely interested in the environ. 'Environ' is a French word which means 'the surroundings.'" At this point Dietz looked at his watch and commented, "I believe my watch has stopped." "Mine hasn't," Teele retorted quickly. "One for you, Sir," Dietz said...
...outskirts of Los Angeles, the President was standing on the back of his car, making a speech, when police got a tip about a man with a gun. Johnson abruptly got in and sat down; a Secret Serviceman jumped up, brandishing an automatic rifle in the rear seat of the presidential follow-up car, and the motorcade moved away. In Buffalo, police picked up a man holding a rifle at a place where the President was expected to pass...
...engine tested in a 30-minute, 3,200-mile flight over the Pacific got its thrust by passing vaporized cesium metal through a hot tungsten filter. This action strips electrons from the cesium, speeds the positively charged ions out the rear of the engine. The great advantage of this process is that it requires remarkably little fuel-only one-tenth of that for a conventional chemical rocket. Even the smallest ion engine could keep a satellite on its right course for more than ten years by giving it gradual nudges. On a 300-day trip to Mars, a full-scale...