Word: rocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...groups--notably Howard Hawks' gruff flyboy panegyrics Dawn Patrol, Only Angels Have Wings and Air Force--the new film is also a splendid display of old-fashioned realistic special effects, which convince viewers not that they are in a cartoon but that they are inside a real rocket with real people who really might die. The result is that rare Hollywood achievement, an adventure of the intelligent spirit. From lift-off to splashdown, Apollo 13 gives one hell of a ride...
...puns aside, in 1994 it got a lot, thanks to sophomore rocket Karen Goetze. The second team All-Ivy runner from Paris, France paced Harvard in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular with a first-place finish, helping the Crimson win the meet for the first time in eight years...
Rage-to-riches stories are not as common as we would like to believe. No matter how many "Mighty Duck" movies Disney puts out or how many times one watches "The Natural," it is quite rare for a cellar-dweller to rocket to the top of the standings...
...canned Russian perch -- American astronaut Norman Thagard has broken the U.S. space endurance record set by three Skylab astronauts in 1974. Now, he's ready for the green hills of Earth. "I miss my family," said Thagard, who became the first American to be launched on a Russian rocket Mar. 14. "I've got three sons and a wife and two cats, and I like them all and I miss them." Unfortunately, he's got another month to go. One Skylab astronaut, Edward Gibson, today radioed up some moral support: "Norm, keep on trucking...
...rocket attack on Zagreb, the Croatian capital of 1 million people, was the last stage in a classic round of Balkan escalation. It began on April 28 when a Croat stabbed an ethnic Serb motorist to death at a gas station along the highway linking Zagreb to eastern Croatia and Serbia. That crucial route runs through two of the four "U.N.-protected areas" that roughly correspond to the self-proclaimed "Republic of Serb Krajina" in Croatia. The Serbs answered the killing by blocking off the highway and slaying three Croatian drivers...