Word: soarings
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...eminent piano has been the Steinway, which at its best has a soar ing, singing tone and a delicately responsive action...
...grow strangely quiet. Groups of spade-bearded sheiks repair conspiratorially to their salons; workers jam the coffeehouses, and nomads huddle like crapshooters in their tents. As they listen to Um Kalthoum's tremulous voice, old men weep, women writhe on the floor, and the hashish smokers-whose purchases soar to monthly peaks just before the broadcasts-drift into glaze-eyed reverie...
...television pictures. Additional picture taking was put off until later in the lunar day, when lengthening shadows would bring out more detail and perhaps even help determine if any meteors had struck near by since the last pictures. Then suddenly, a short circuit caused the battery temperature to soar to what appeared to be fatally high levels. Surveyor hurriedly made another TV sweep of the moonscape, and scientists resigned themselves to its end at last. But just as they did, in some miraculous fashion the temperature started going down again, and the battery once more accepted a charge. How long...
Payoff. Washington so far has picked up 75%, or $175 million, of SST development costs, and the bill may well soar to $4 billion. The Government intends not only to recoup its money but also to repay the losing firms' investment through still unspecified production royalties. Boeing has poured in $30 million of its own, has 2,400 Seattle technicians at work on the project. Lockheed has invested nearly $31 million in ten years of research and facilities for 1,900 engineers and other experts. In the engine competition, G.E. has spent $20 million, United Aircraft about $15 million...
...strange dynamics of the umbilical cord in the vacuum of space. At one point, the cord wrapped itself around him. "The snake's all over me!" shouted the surprised astronaut. For still unexplained reasons, Cernan-like Ed White before him-had to struggle constantly against a tendency to soar above the spacecraft at the end of his cord...