Word: staff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy ordered his staff to deny that he was seeking a divorce, but he did not repudiate Pearson's report that the Senator's marriage was "on the rocks." The McCarthys have been married 24 years, have four children, and are practicing Roman Catholics. (At one time he was a Benedictine novice, and he still has a carved visage of St. Benedict in his Senate office...
There is far more to Mission Control, however, than the control room. For each console there is a staff support room down the hall manned by a dozen or more experts. Complete telemetry from the spacecraft is received by staff-room consoles, which funnel the most important bits to the control room and store the rest. The space program's major contractors-North American Rockwell for the command and service modules, Grumman for the lunar module-also keep staff members in nearby offices. In case of trouble with spacecraft equipment, the contractors can call major subcontractors on their...
American League Manager Mayo Smith of Detroit then rushed in the ace of his own mound staff, Denny McLain. The Tiger righthander had flown home in his personal Lear jet to have his deteriorating teeth examined, returned just in time to dress and warm up for the fourth inning. McCovey greeted McLain by rapping his third pitch over the rightfield fence for the fifth home run of the game...
...house and a life that for many years had been too empty. In content, it was very little different from the 150 calls a month received by 323-1819, which is the number of a service known as Dial-a-Listener. At the receiving end is a rotating staff of ten volunteers-including the schoolteacher, a nurse, an author, a civil engineer-who keep the number open around the clock. At the other end are the lonely people of Davenport who hunger for the sound of a sympathetic human voice...
...impressive to him. He has felt the frustration and occasional pangs of hopelessness in working with someone who clings tenaciously to his problems. He can understand the tremendous demands placed on attendants and doctors alike, the energy which is required to understand and help a patient. To see a staff working in the fact of these odds is impressive. There is a strong, gamey spirit among the staff; they know the frustrations of their work and they know how to laugh when the problems threaten to undermine their belief in what they can do. And if you can convince them...