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Rising out of a field on the campus of Princeton University is an eerie-looking Dacron-covered dome that suggests a wayward spaceship. Inside is something that looks either like a miniature Matterhorn or perhaps a giant Sno-Cone wrapped in plastic. In fact, the mound is the tip of an iceberg. Beneath it, nestled into a 10-ft.-deep hole in the ground, is a thick heap of slowly melting ice. To its creator, Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist turned alternative-energy researcher, the pile of ice is proof that there are better and cheaper ways than air conditioning...
...Medical Student Timothy McCowan of Little Rock, Ark., is a painful stiffness resulting from "repeated prolonged playing" of the popular Atari video game. According to McCowan, himself a sufferer, rapid repetitive arm movement with much abrupt bending and twisting of the wrist and forearm are required to maneuver the spaceship. The second affliction was discovered by Dr. Richard Neiman of Sacramento and Susan Ushiroda of Portland, Ore., after examination of two women who complained of sudden pain in the right shoulder. Investigation revealed that their discomfort followed a weekend of gambling at Lake Tahoe, Nev. For "slot-machine tendinitis...
...Manhattan pub to watch the landing. "It shows everybody we're still No. 1." Mrs. Alicia Hoerter, a Louisville grandmother, could barely contain her excitement or her puns. "Columbia, the gem of a notion!" she exulted. "First, it's a rocket, then it's a spaceship, then it's a plane." In a packed Georgia Tech ballroom, great whoops of joy went up when John Young, class of '52, put Columbia down on the desert floor, and a band struck up "I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech...
...waiting, watching world. Two days late but this time almost precisely on its new schedule-indeed, only 3.983 sec. late, by Launch Control's incredibly accurate reckoning-the spaceship Columbia took off on man's first commuter run into the heavens. Two minutes after the flawless liftoff, the two solid-fuel boosters folded back from the 75-ton space shuttle and began to settle under parachutes about 160 miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean, only 16 miles off target, for recovery by ship and later reuse. Said Mission Control: "Columbia is now committed to space travel...
...Negro space traveler named Mr. Quadir from the planet G-7 got on a Manhattan shuttle train wearing iridescent purple sunglasses and a green and yellow vinyl jacket to which had been pinned a rubber alligator. Explaining that he was penniless, owing to the unexpected crash of his spaceship, Mr. Quadir played a few tunes on his saxaphone and asked fellow passengers for financial assistance. When we called Mr. Young's Atlanta office, inquiring as to how he intended to exploit this extraterrestial opportunity, the spokesman was evasive, in fact uncooperative...