Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, there are rules to Allnighting, just as there is etiquette to being a jogger--wearing a jogging suit, not sweats, eating Dannon yogurt, owning a walkman, a pedometer, a pulse regulator and all the rest of it. Following these guidelines will rocket you past mere tiredness into the alternate plane of existence where roams the Allnightist...
They had blasted off from Cape Canaveral last January to the thunderous roar of Challenger's five rocket engines. They returned last week to a respectfully silent ceremony on the Cape's runway where their shuttle mission, if successful, would have landed. The quiet was broken only by two disparate sounds: the somber cadence of tramping boots as an Air Force honor guard gently placed the seven flag-draped coffins aboard a Lockheed C-141 transport plane, and the cheery song of a nearby flock of mockingbirds...
...retainer walls and narrow approaches that is well suited for Iranian defenses. Iraq's Soviet-made tanks are unable to advance along the narrow roads and soft levees leading to the town. When tanks do get into position, they are badly exposed and easily crippled by fire from Iranian rocket- propelled grenades. Should the Iraqis succeed in driving the Iranians out of the salt evaporator, notes a Western military observer, "they will have to fight in the ruins of Fao." Once an Iraqi oil-exporting terminal in the gulf, the town is now a collection of bombed-out buildings that...
...admiral said he would enlist "this nation's best talent" in redesigning the joints on the rocket boosters, one of which obviously failed on the Jan. 28 Challenger flight. Re-evaluations and, if necessary, redesigns would be ordered for all 748 shuttle parts designated "criticality 1," meaning that if they failed the mission would be lost, since these parts had no backup performing the same vital function. When any qualified person "raises his hand" to oppose a launch-go, Truly pledged, "he will be listened to." Truly insisted that his "conservative" flight philosophy would not mean "a namby-pamby program...
...Israelis living in the frontier town Qiryat Shemona knew that casualties from rocket attacks launched across the border in southern Lebanon would come sooner or later. Last week the inevitable happened. A single Soviet-made Katyusha rocket hit a school yard, injuring four children and one teacher. It was the second such assault on northern Israel in three days...