Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans had soared into space 55 times over 25 years, and their safe return came to be taken for granted. An age when most anyone, given a few months' training, could go along for a safe ride seemed imminent. Christa McAuliffe was the pioneer and the vibrant symbol of this amazing new era of space for Everyman. An ebullient high school social-studies teacher from Concord, N.H., she was to be the first ordinary citizen to be shot into space, charged with showing millions of watchful schoolchildren how wonderful it could be. She was bringing every American who had ever...
...before Challenger was launched into space, Gregory Jarvis took a leisurely bicycle ride around the Kennedy Space Center. "For any contingency, they know what to do," he said of his NASA colleagues on the ground. "So I feel very, very comfortable. I'm excited, but not nervous...
...first woman in space, or even the first American woman. Those honors went to the Soviet Union's Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and America's Sally Ride (1983). But Judith ("J.R.") Resnik may have been the most doggedly determined astronaut, male or female, ever to suit up. "I want to do everything there is to be done," she once said, and she came close to her goal. A gourmet cook and classical pianist ("I never play anything softly") with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, she was working on a pilot's license before she died...
...rollercoaster ride of a game, Boston University overcame an early Northeastern onslaught to defeat the Huskies, 8-5, before a capacity crowd of 14,451 at Boston Garden...
...there. I see first-run theaters as becoming the 'loss leader' for the VCR, like hard-cover books for the paperback industry or a tuna special for the grocery store." Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Mishima) is even more emphatic: "The times they are achangin'. We should ride the technical and social evolution and speak to the medium most preferred. If the dinosaurs don't like it, too bad for them...