Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most ungainly-looking loads ever hefted aloft. Designed and built by PerkinElmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., it contained a 36-in. mirror that would be a respectable size even for a solid-ground observatory, but that mirror was only the beginning. The telescope was suspended so that it could swing in all directions, under precise control by ground radio. It carried a coarse-vision television camera to act as a finder and pick up guide-stars. As the telescope's 18-ft. tube swung around the heavens, a fine-vision TV camera told operators on the ground what...
Between his December election and last week's inaugural, Bosch made a swing through the U.S. and Europe asking everyone from President Kennedy to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for the where withal to finance his promised reforms. The results were mixed. The Alliance for Progress disbursed $5.000.000 of $47 million in credits and grants that had already been committed to the Dominican Republic. Private industry in the U.S. and other countries agreed to send in missions to assay investment opportunities. And he does have a stable currency to build on. Last year, under diligent prodding from the provisional government...
...Goulart gave France 48 hours to withdraw all its boats. Until then De Gaulle himself had remained above the squabble, perhaps because Brazil fitted somewhere in his grand design. He had invited Goulart to visit Paris some time this year, and an emissary had recently reported back after a swing through Latin America that France, in need of new markets, should woo Brazil...
When the spacecraft passes beyond Earth's atmosphere, its real life begins. The shroud around it falls away; there is no air now to do damage. Gravity has fallen to zero, and frail antennae and solar panels can swing outward, pushed by feeble springs. The spacecraft absorbs sunlight, as a baby breathes air, and electrical energy pulses through its metal circulatory system. It is now a denizen of space...
...most professional of Boston's coffee-houses. It has the highest cover charge--$2.00 on weekends and $1.50 on week nights. Often it gets outstanding acts like the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, but all too often the acts are slick folkum and just plain don't swing...