Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only a few minutes later, however, the Crimson policy paid off as Captain Graney drove his blue-line shot into the lower left corner of the cage...
...Crimson clearly demonstrated its superiority under normal playing conditions. Navy's practice of slamming every serve and pounding every shot was futile in courts where the ball did not get overheated and make exaggerated rebounds...
...humble opinion, the man of 1959 was the Soviet scientist who gave the U.S.S.R. its greatest propaganda gains this year, put the first rocket on the moon, shot a rocket around the moon...
Making her way back to their Pigalle apartment, Lydia was soon joined by her father, who had also survived German internment (her mother had been shot by the retreating Nazis on their last day in Warsaw). In Paris, father and daughter picked up the pieces of their old life. Lydia enrolled in a dancing school in 1948, two years later was among the few chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon...
When the sun set, the balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton...