Word: six-hour
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...half-hour delay while the timer activated the back-up recorder, Dean's conversation might have taken place in that dead interval. When the length of the conversation was pointed out, Zumwalt suddenly recalled that the changeover timer was set to operate only six days a week, since a single six-hour reel could normally handle the relatively limited weekend conversations. That meant no back-up recorder takeover on Sunday if the tape...
...armed forces performed a miracle, by any military standard. I would not be exaggerating if I say that military historians will long pause to examine and study the operation carried out on Oct. 6. The risk was enormous and the sacrifices were grave. But the results of the first six-hour battle of our war were magnificent. Our wounded nation has restored its honor and the political map of the Middle East has been changed...
Over 30,000 people crowded riverbanks and jostled for bridge positions to watch the six-hour contest...
...naked. (Certainly the children had the biggest ball of all at the Whitney.) But you and I lack even rules. And it is a futile effort that searches for them. Ambiguity is all you will get out of this art scene. The artist is marketing wiseguyness (Warhol makes a six-hour movie of a man sleeping and distributes it as fast as his factories can manufacture it; Lichtenstein can't get off his punch line. "It seemed impossible to print something somebody wouldn't hang. Everybody was hanging everything"). The critic lacks an objective basis of taste; the artist refuses...
...medical concern was not unwarranted. All three astronauts were unsteady as they emerged from the spacecraft, and Astronaut-Physician Kerwin needed a slight assist as the three Navymen walked to a waiting mobile medical lab. Then, as the carrier steamed to San Diego, doctors began an intense, six-hour examination aimed at answering many questions relating to the prolonged flight. For example, had there been irreversible damage to the astronauts' cardiovascular systems or excessive loss of calcium from their bones...