Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is little time for orbital mechanics to take hold, and Schirra was able to largely ignore their strange effects and allow his pilot's instincts to take over. After blipping his thrusters to edge closer to Gemini 7, he fired short reverse blasts to come to a stop, since there is no friction in space to slow him down. Back and forth, up and down, he maneuvered with a precision that brought expressions of admiration from Borman and from ground control in Houston, which noted that at rendezvous he had used less than 50% of the maneuvering propellant...
...Your Kennedy-Johnson Essay [Nov. 26] sounds like so many sour grapes. I certainly wish you would stop trying to compare peaches and pumpkins...
...Sometimes the drum, bass and piano drive the soloists, but mostly they provide only phantom rhythms under the fluid runs and fragmentary phrases of the trumpet and tenor sax. No one will be tempted to tap a foot or sing along, but few with any E.S.P. at all will stop listening...
...good roper owes 75% of his success to his horse). Rodeo ropers pay as much as $5,000 for a quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
...longer does a typical Saigon elementary class of 60 kids have only six textbooks, each of a different kind. No longer do teachers have to outline a lesson on chalkboard, make children copy it and chant it back. To stop any kid on the streets is to find one or two of the new texts in his bookbag...