Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacecraft had ever failed to complete its planned mission. But Kraft, as ever, was the cool and deliberate flight engineer. He used every available moment to weigh every contingency. He ran a check of the spacecraft. All the key systems, such as cabin pressure, oxygen flow and cabin and suit temperature, were normal and running perfectly...
...center, out of the blazing Texas sun, every corridor hums with space-age intensity. Besides directing spacecraft in flight and training astronauts, the Houston center also develops new engineering techniques and supervises the testing of every piece of equipment that will be used−from transistors to space-suit zippers to fuel cells. A vibration laboratory shakes the very innards out of equipment; a thermochemical complex tests rocket thrusters. In the simulation and training building, an astronaut can climb inside a spacecraft and practice all the functions of a mission, from launch to retrofire...
...literacy tests have been in use and where less than 50% of the voting-age population took part in the 1964 elections. The urgent problem was: Which counties to choose? Justice Department lawyers labored over briefs and memos detailing the voting histories of key counties. A few worked on suits that were filed last week against the poll taxes in Alabama, Texas and Virginia; Mississippi, the only other state still requiring a poll tax for state and local elections, had already been slapped with a suit just 25 hours after Lyndon Johnson signed the act. Armed with a stack...
...Core. Halfway through this eccentric British comedy about a pack of bumbling criminals, moviegoers whose memories reach back a decade or so are apt to grow nostalgic and inquire rhetorically: Guinness, anyone? Rotten invites comparison to Sir Alec's memorable extralegal capers in The Man in the White Suit and The Lavender Hill Mob, but its low-jinx omits such essentials as wit, slyness and style...
...infected even Balenciaga, who at 72 is considered the Michelangelo of the trade. The master put his hostesses in white stretch pants under taupe chiffon or gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...