Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minus-nine minutes, a slight drop in liquid-oxygen pressure was detected in the huge 526,000-gal. external fuel tank and in one of three oxygen tanks carried aboard the orbiter. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson at Mission Control in Houston stopped the countdown and consulted other technicians. The problem did not seem serious. Pressure in the tanks could be adjusted by warming the oxygen with on-board heaters. Ground computers guiding the launch were instructed to ignore the pressure drop, and the countdown continued...
...shuttle's solid-fuel rockets caused the control flaps on the trailing edge of Columbia's delta wings to flutter so wildly that they approached the breaking point. The shock also bent and buckled several of the metal trusses linking Columbia to its big external fuel tank. To prevent a recurrence of this near disaster, engineers had to undertake a complete overhaul of the shock-suppression system, deluging the flame pits on the launch pad beneath Columbia's solid-fuel rockets with even more water...
...subsequent controversy has centered on the nature of the lecture series itself, which is sponsored by the John M. Olin Foundation, a conservative think-tank. Protestors and a number of faculty members have expressed concern over the right-wing nature of the Olin Foundation and its alleged connections with the Olin Mathison Chemical Corporation, a chief supplier of gunpowder to the armed forces...
...American shell," and a 30-mm aircraft round is "very effective against persons." A 22-lb. French "Commando" mortar is perfect for those times when combat squads "have to fight violently at very short distances." The brief entries tend to a breathless specificity. A smoke bomb lets a tank "escape temporarily from the adversary's sight and prevent the latter from adjusting his fire"; a 105-mm antitank rocket launcher is "designed for use by either a right-or a left-handed soldier." The French grant far more space to the nitty-gritty of war: pistols, plastic explosives...
...none other than the august French jewelry firm of Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...