Word: sky
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty miles north of Antigua, it was 3:50 a.m.. May 28, 1959. From the bridge and foredeck of the stubby U.S. Navy fleet tug Kiowa, about 25 officers and crewmen gazed at the tropical sky in awe and anxiety. What they saw was a momentous event in the history of man's determination to conquer space...
...what is perhaps world diplomatic history's most astonishing statistic, he traveled 559,988 miles on his mission. High in the sky, far from the minutiae of State Department administration, he could sort out basic policies, could weigh the strengths, problems and needs of the nations and leaders he had just seen-many of them, such as West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Nationalist China's Chiang Kaishek, his friends. High in the sky he could also slip into a sweater and carpet slippers, read his detective stories, sip rye on the rocks, play the inevitable backgammon...
...balancing force. This may be the shareholder's form of profit-taking, but it is more likely a sign of his confidence in the funds; when the market is uncertain, he feels safer with his money in mutual funds, but when he thinks it is heading for the sky, he succumbs to the temptation to take his money and get into a more lively stock...
...Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats they would feed frogs and baby thrushes: "It was on these occasions, we agreed, after an exchange of views, that we came nearest...
Galveston's huge radar domes, one for scanning the sky to detect enemy targets, the other for locking onto them and tracking them, at first presented another hazard: a spillover of X rays. Several men were found to have been overexposed before this fact was detected, but none have shown any ill effects. The danger was eliminated by installing extra lead shielding for the klystron tubes in the transmitters. Future tubes will be made with the shielding built...