Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flame spewed out from the Atlas-D missile. For nearly four seconds, it seemed rooted to its pad in the space-age wasteland of Cape Canaveral, a flat, sandy scrubland dotted by palmetto trees and looming, ungainly missile gantries. Then the rocket took off, heading into the brilliant blue sky. "Lift-off," said Glenn. "The clock is operating. We're under...
...told by Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, press chief of Project Mercury (see PRESS) that there had been "an indication of a problem with the heat shield deployment switch. The signal apparently was erroneous." But at the time, neither the men on the ground nor the astronaut in the sky were so sure that the signal was wrong...
...hands, is an unusual move, which is against Senate traditions. Arriving on the Senate floor to fight the petition, McClellan growled to a colleague: "I don't know if I'm a Democrat any more." Thundered he to the Senate: "The brightness of the legislative sky is clouded, the brilliance of statesmanship is dimmed, and the light of fairness and justice in this chamber is darkened today by this deplorable action." For the first time in 20 years, every member of the Senate was present to vote-and the roll call was a stunning rebuke to the Administration...
Annie's previous adventure showed the U.S. how to handle Castro. A passenger on an airliner "sky-jacked" by unshaven pirates. Annie was taken to the island of Tributo, where General Mustashio Toro held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful...
After more than three years of high hopes, this was the big day. At 2801 East Washington Street in Phoenix, in a new sky-blue, concrete-block building, the first issue of a metropolitan daily newspaper, the morning Arizona Journal, was about to roll off the press. Even the date was auspicious: it was the 50th anniversary of Arizona's statehood. Then, just as the new, automatic machinery swung into action, everything seemed to go wrong...