Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration prepared by Honeywell Inc. Once they started working on the problems of personal space flight control, Honeywell engineers were soon tangled in startling complexities. The most obvious scheme was one of the first to be discarded. Levers similar to the conventional aircraft control stick would be all but impossible of operation by a man with his arms in the stiff sleeves of an inflated space suit. And more important, an astronaut's hands would have to be free for a variety of exacting tasks...
Besides this stick, the Report recommends a carrot: increased state aid for programs specifically intended to cut down racial imbalance. Because the Commonwealth already provides a substantial portion of local school budgets, and because the Boston School Committee is continually short of funds, both the carrot and the stick are likely to have a significant effect...
With only 46 seconds remaining in the game, Bruin Gneiser, alone on the left, evened the score at 7-7. Then, Crimson midfielder Denis Byrne got the ball after the face off, raced down the field with his stick in the air, and got off a hard shot from about fifteen feet out which landed in the right corner of the net. The winning goal came 30 seconds before the final...
...even President Ho believed that his uncovered country could long endure an all-out air war with the U.S. Although Peking loudly rejected Lyndon Johnson's "carrot-and-stick" bid last week, Ho was more cautious. Hanoi radio reported the gist of the President's speech, and Ho released an earlier interview in which he demanded American withdrawal from South Viet...
...Bruce fell upon his principal political rival, John Comyn of Badenoch, and stabbed him to death before the altar of a village church. Crowned King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife...