Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boundary, about 34,000 miles short of the moon, where the moon's pull is as strong as the earth's. If it reaches this point with a small velocity, it will fall on the moon. If it crosses the line at good speed, it will shoot past the moon, its course merely deflected. This is what happened to the Lunik...
...protected capsule to bring him back alive is already under development. One of the preliminary research tools toward this project is the X-15 rocket-plane, which will meet its first tests in a month or so. It is designed to start its flights in the atmosphere, then shoot out of it to a probable height of 150 miles. Its descent on stubby wings will build experience for controlled returns from deeper space...
...strategists believe that a U.S. rocket base on the moon, which could never be destroyed by surprise attack, would provide the supreme deterrent to any earth aggressor. Most scientists do not agree. Nor do they think much of the idea of armed satellite bases. They see little reason to shoot from a satellite when a rocket shot from solid ground can hit any target on earth. But satellites may prove to have value as "eyes in the sky" over enemy territory...
...well is 23-year-old Rookie Baylor handling the ball and himself this season in the National Basketball Association that his fellow pros already regard him with ungrudging admiration. "He has that ability to hang there in mid-air for a few seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When...
Asked by newsmen as he left his quarters in the Havana Hilton Hotel whether the shooting of Fulgencio Batista's accused henchmen would be called off, Castro replied swiftly: "No. To the contrary, we have given orders to shoot every one of these murderers. And if we have to battle world opinion to mete out justice we are prepared...