Word: snout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missile off the launch pad in a spectacular display of steam and ear-shattering sound. And since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket neared the peak of its trajectory, seconds after its engines cut out, it was blown to bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed...
...that Henry Adams thought was dying out around the turn of the century. A graduate of Harvard College '14, grandson of Senator Charles Sumner, (who is perhaps best remembered for having said, "A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!") Welles rose rapidly in the diplomatic service. The friendship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and others who recognized him as one of their own were of value in a day in which the State Department was one of Washington's more exclusive clubs...
...flee. The good diver stays and faces the shark." Cousteau's men never use knives or guns on sharks because of the danger of provoking attack, shove away intruders with clubs made of broomsticks cut in half. Cousteau himself once routed a shark by socking it on the snout with his camera. But Cousteau readily concedes that sharks can be unpredictable; one once nipped Art Pinder's stern black and blue. The safest place when sharks prowl by is under water; as scavengers, they are used to snapping up anything floating on the surface...