Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of the public quizzing focused on the Challenger's two solid-fuel rocket boosters, each 149 ft. tall and 12.2 ft. in diameter. Photographs released by NASA left no doubt that an abnormal plume of flame had appeared on the right-hand booster just before a huge fireball engulfed the entire space vehicle. Although NASA's acting administrator, William Graham, said the flame's location had not been pinpointed, it appeared to be about 36 ft. above the bottom of the rocket's nozzle, near an attachment ring where the lower part of the booster was connected...
...which carried 143,351 gal. of liquid oxygen and 385,265 gal. of liquid hydrogen. Two lines connected the fuels to the orbiter, where they would be mixed at controlled levels to power the spacecraft's engines. The other two companions were the gleaming white boosters, each 149 ft. tall and packed with more than 1.1 million lbs. of solid fuel. Once ignited at lift-off, they would burn uncontrollably until their fuel was spent...
...said that the man who hit him was tall and wore a leather jacket and maroon pants. He did not get a close look at the others because "before I knew what was happening, I was unconscious...
...themselves these days. Somewhere along the way, they managed to cash in the stone, and invest the proceeds in a dreamy little sloop moored off some idyllic island paradise. And gosh darn, everything would be just fine if Joan (Kathleen Turner) just hadn't accepted that offer from Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome Omar-the-Arab (Spiros Focas) to write his biography. Now Jack (Michael Douglas) is all upset--jealous, just like a man--and their blissful little tryst comes to an end as Joan flies off to North Africa to observe Omar in his natural habitat and Jack huffs...
...Yankee-Dodger World Series in lieu of a Mariner-Giant baseball battle, akin to depriving it of a Celtic-Laker Championship in lieu of a Cavalier-Maverick hoop hoedown, or akin to depriving it of an Ali-Frazier replay in lieu of a Tex Cobb-Ed "Too Tall" Jones boxing bout...