Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become its final home, the plush revolving lounge on the top of the BobCo Building." What kind of place was Bob's Bob House? The narrator recalls the hospitality of his host: "My God, I drank the place dry that night, and then I had a good solid piece of American grain-fed beef and got in my car and ran over a claims adjuster and ended up in Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. That's the kind...
Neither Blair nor Draper enjoyed good nights Friday, but both turned in solid performances the following night. Blair held RPI scoreless for two periods, and Draper recorded 18 saves in Vermont's 3-2 overtime win over Dartmouth...
...rings, already suspect, were spotlighted early in the week when the Times printed details of memos leaked by an unnamed solid-fuel rocket expert. One document, written last July by Richard Cook, an agency budget analyst, noted that booster O rings had shown signs of charring on previous missions and could lead to a "catastrophic" situation...
...ring was at fault. According to a flight "time-line" compiled by NASA and released at week's end the smoke first appeared .445 seconds after booster ignition. It swirled between the rocket and the external tank, near where the fatal burnthrough seems to have occurred. One solid-rocket specialist noted that because the puff was dark, it probably did not result from combustion of the booster's solid fuel, which produces light-colored smoke. More likely, it came from the burning O ring or the putty placed inside the rings to protect the seal...
...Vermont does have defense. Only one team in the ECAC has surrendered fewer scores than Draper and his solid blue-line corps...