Word: tested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Excavators decided to core the well when a test core taken last Thursday revealed that the small artifacts in the well did not merit costlier hand excavation, Gray C. Graffan, project archeologist at the institute, said yesterday...
...extraordinary success. In 1938, when the magazine published explicit photographs of childbirth. Larsen went to the office of a Bronx assistant district attorney and ceremoniously sold a copy to a detective; the D.A. charged Larsen with selling an obscene publication. The incident brought national publicity to LIFE and a test case involving the First Amendment's free-press guarantee. Larsen was acquitted...
...summer idyl comes to an end, Pavarotti faces up to two realities. There is a new season to be taken on, and new poundage to be taken off. He undergoes his customary blood test, takes his own blood pressure and pronounces himself fit but "rather overweight." Then he flies off to London for recording sessions, leaving his family to readjust after a period of revolving solely around him. He calls Adua later to see how things are going. "Wonderful," she sighs wearily. "The girls and I are about to start our vacation...
...Cronkite echoes in the memory of America's entry into the competition. There were resonant suspense at lift-offs and tremolos of pride at splashdowns: America still had the right stuff, Wolfe's buzz word for the indefinable attributes of the astronauts. His long awaited book about test pilots and the Mercury flights recalls those years through the eyes and nerve endings of the first astronauts, their wives and even the conditioned chimpanzees who rode prototype capsules downrange from Cape Canaveral: The chimp's &"heart rate shot up as he strained against the force, but he didn...
...even the creakiest practitioner of the inverted-pyramid style of journalism will have to agree that behind the mannered realism of The Right Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist. The organizing principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. In addition, the book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history...