Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday the sad sound of bugles blowing taps rolled across the site from which the astronauts had climbed so joyfully, but so briefly, into the air. Employees of the Kennedy Space Center held a memorial service near the stands where the schoolchildren had watched the lift-off. A helicopter then carried a wreath of white chrysanthemums and seven red carnations two miles out to sea and dropped them into the gray water...
...launch platform was about to be flooded by powerful streams of water gushing from six pipes fully 7 ft. in diameter. The purpose: to damp the lift- off sound levels from Challenger's three engines. Otherwise, the acoustic energy alone could damage the craft's underside. The main-engine firing sequence was turned over to computers...
...this convergence of his work and leisure pursuits, Scobee once observed, "You know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn't one to sound off on his own," said a friend, Bill Almon of Yakima, Wash. But once the conversation turned to space, Almon added, "you could see the gleam in his eye, and he would want to talk about...
...five committees of the Council, and since I have attended almost all of their meetings, I have come to know the workings of the Council quite well. I am also a member of the Board of Directors of the Student Productions Agency, and I have also built a sound working relationship with the Harvard community, including administrators, faculty and house committees...
...timer, Reagan likes to sound a continual rallying cry to youth. Young people will have to live with the events of this time, his message declares. New concern about education, both in families and communities, has already improved classroom discipline and learning. That crusade must go on in the grass roots. And catastrophic medical costs for some elderly patients, so devastating to their families, must be studied to see if there is not some program that would ease the lives of the old and free the young from this threat of economic ruin...