Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock market will not rocket higher or careen into a ditch just because the Dow notches a fifth digit. But Dow 10,000 is a critical plateau in that it will be the product of an extraordinary run. If the Dow had risen at its historical rate of 11% a year instead of its 24% average annual rise since 1994, it would now be nearing 6000, and we'd be years--not days--from popping the cork. No one can say when this period of outsized gains will end. But the same trends will not last forever...
...long before, Goddard, a physics professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., had published an arid little paper on an outrageous topic, rocket travel. Unlike most of his colleagues, Goddard believed rocketry was a viable technology, and his paper, primly titled "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," was designed to prove it. For the lay reader, there wasn't much in the writing to excite interest, but at the end, the buttoned-up professor unbuttoned a bit. If you used his technology to build a rocket big enough, he argued, and if you primed it with fuel that was powerful...
Goddard meant his moon musings to be innocent enough, but when the Times saw them, it pounced. As anyone knew, the paper explained with an editorial eye roll, space travel was impossible, since without atmosphere to push against, a rocket could not move so much as an inch. Professor Goddard, it was clear, lacked "the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools...
...doesn't take a rocket scientist to figureout that guards in the Houses are already in thecommunity," Riley admits...
...think I'm giving too much away to note that one, Homer makes good; and two, one of the film's final images is of Dad's arm giving Homer's shoulder a paternal blessing as a rocket soars impossibly high into a deep blue sky--a male-weepie moment to rival Field of Dreams' climax. An entire audience of NASA brass and astronauts was reportedly broken up at a preview screening in Washington, although when I checked this out with former astronaut Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, he gave me a cagey "not really" when...