Word: space
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with calisthenics until he was escorted to the lavatory an hour later. After breakfast, he would walk in the Spandau prison garden, head lowered, hands clasped behind his back, invariably marching 215 paces in one direction and 215 in the other. After lunch, he would study the moon and space charts that covered the walls of his cell, watch television or read books on space exploration. In later years Hess became a fan of Dallas and Dynasty, but he was always banned from watching news programs...
...says. "I don't love paintings the way I love my wife. I mean, I love them in a different way. And I love them at least partly because this art is so different from what I do that it's an escape for me. Paintings exist in space; show business exists in time. I like to sit down, alone or with Victoria, and look at the paintings. Sometimes I feel so lucky to own them. It's like, good grief, these things are so beautiful -- how did this happen...
...offs that are approximately as well attended as high school basketball tournaments in Indiana. Such top-ranked groups as the four who traveled to Durham have little chance to grow rusty. This week on the Big Island, for example, the Kanaka'ole sisters will invoke the gods for a space conference and take part in the Kilauea Dance Exhibition...
Such writers are frightened--and rightfully so--by our sluggish economy, our losses in international trade, and our rapid transformation from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor in the space of a few years. They have watched the United States' share of the world economy drop from nearly half to close to a quarter. They observe the growing power of the Japanese and Germans, and they say the decline is unstoppable. They chart the failures of our military power in Vietnam and now the Gulf, and they cry "Uncle...
...Many of the 130 men and 40 women in the crew, mostly youthful British volunteers, are skilled racing oarsmen. Even so, handling the as yet unnamed trireme, which will be commissioned later this month, proved to be daunting. The seats do not move, as in modern shells, and the space between them is so small that oarsmen cannot move their bodies. The two bottom tiers of oarsmen must row blind. Guidance comes from the top level of rowers, who can see when the oars -- which are only 12 inches apart -- are overlapping. Those on the lowest tier suffer the most...