Word: stayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midweek, NASA officials decided that recovery would be too dangerous in the tossing waters off Bermuda and ordered the astronauts to stay in orbit for one additional revolution. Thus, as the earth revolved beneath Apollo's orbit, the next pass over the Atlantic enabled the astronauts to splash down far from the storm, in the calm waters off Grand Turk Island, in the Bahamas. There, the only whitecaps were those churned up by recovery helicopters...
...secure tiny fields for their children? I get from Womack's book the same feeling I have gotten from watching campesinos in other parts of Mexico talk about land. It is not something you love or hate, it is a part of you, and as you would fight to stay alive, so you would fight to protect you land from dismemberment. Only such strong feelings can serve to explain how Zapata and his followers could have made the terrible, ruinous journey they made. Their revolution demanded of them a self-sacrifice which few of us, with our theories...
...nickname "the Berlin Wall." He has also, inevitably, bruised many clerical feelings. "Benelli is a Tuscan," said one Vatican critic. "He has inherited traditional Tuscan pigheadedness. He is ruthless." Not everyone is intimidated. Not knowing that the Pope had asked Archbishop Michael Gonzi of Malta, then 82, to stay on in office, Benelli sent word asking the prelate to vacate his see within two weeks. Gonzi stormed to Rome. "You've been a bishop two years," he said indignantly when Benelli finally received him. "I've been a bishop for 44 years, and you want to throw...
...Federal Reserve chairman to offer to resign. Martin never took the hint. Today's Federal Reserve governors are mostly Democratic appointees and, for the first time in many years, the board stands to the left of the Administration. But President Nixon has pointedly asked Martin to stay on until his term expires next...
...hard-edged for Demy's blurry art nouveau. Dressed in clinging blue T shirt and form-fitting jeans, Gary Lockwood makes his way through a thankless role mostly by shifting his feet uncomfortably. Either those jeans are just too tight, or he's trying to stay out of Demy...