Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Shepard rode the hopes of the U.S. and the whole free world in a period of darkness. In recent weeks the U.S. had suffered a succession of setbacks: first, the orbital exploit claimed by the Soviet Union for its Major "Gaga"' Gagarin, then the Cuba debacle, and then retreat in strategic Southeast Asia. For Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier image badly tarnished by cold war defeats, Freedom 7 represented a daring and dangerous gamble. He had given the go-ahead for the man-shoot not to be made in such secrecy as to cast doubt on the actual...
...Johnsville, Pa., he rode in a human centrifuge to feel crushing G forces. He learned to recognize useful stars. He took training in desert survival and practiced squirming out of a Mercury capsule while it was tossing on a choppy sea. He learned about weightlessness by flying in high-speed airplanes as they curved over the top half of an outside loop. He rode in a MASTIF (Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility), a training device that tumbles on three axes, and learned how to bring it to an even keel. In quieter moments he studied astronautics, aviation biology, astronomy...
...social arbiter Mrs. Cortelyou ("When above 79th Street, do as they do above 79th Street"); the warring psychiatrists Dr. Onan L. Digges ("the Saniflush of the Unconscious") and the "Freudy-cat" Dr. Selig J. Reichner; Miss La Fosse, who claims that she graduated from Vassar at twelve and rode "pillion on an older man's motor cycle" long before anyone heard of Lolita. When these characters converge in the back corridors or the main dining hall of Serenity House, they strike continuous comic sparks. At times the characters-and the book-show the strain of trying to make every...
With two boats ahead now and the only possibility left of tying Navy by placing second, Marshal threw caution to the winds and tossed on the big blue and white spinnaker. After rapidly catching the Babson boat, he ordered a jibe. Although the boom rode up the mast in the high wind, four of the crew barely held it down
...into space with rockets and bring him back alive, a California test pilot proved last week that the mundane manned airplane is still a fairly handy get-up-and-go device. Above the shimmering mirages of California's Mojave Desert, Veteran Test Pilot Joseph Albert Walker rode the nation's most advanced research craft-the North American X-15-to a height of 169,600 ft. (32.12 miles). Walker's flight lifted him farther from earth than man has gone before and provided a strong hint that the winged aircraft may provide a very feasible...