Word: steering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FASCIST. Italian history is wryly spoofed in the conflict between a Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and the droll philosopher (Georges Wilson) whom he must steer through retreating Germans, invading Allies, and other perils common to the peninsula...
...served as Acting President, will now devote her full attention to her position as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Mrs. Gilbert often referred to her role during the past year as a "stewardship," noting that the course had already been charted for her. "My job was to steer the ship," she said recently...
DEAR KERMIT," wrote Molly Gordon to her husband not long ago, "now that you are leaving your job of directing the federal budget, I suppose you will be taking on again your old job of directing our family budget. I read that you have attempted to steer a national course between profligacy and parsimony. Well, I have been trying to follow this middle-of-the-road course with our family finances, but I have discovered that it's in the middle-of-the-road that most of the accidents seem to happen...
...fact, displayed undeniable genius. In the 1880s, the authors report, a horse in Texas was trained to run backwards-fast. And a cutting horse named Bosley Blue, who could handle 1,500 head of cattle without a rider to direct him, once grabbed the tail of a raging steer in his teeth, flipped the brute on his back, then calmly sat on top of him till he sizzled down...
What the computer's failure did mean was that McDivitt would not be able to "fly" the capsule back to earth. Kraft therefore advised him that ground computers would have to help steer Gemini 4 for him, as they did in Mercury flights...