Word: tether
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turns out that the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory can't tether a cow in the Yard after...
...going to do it," he says. He is just finishing a critical anthology of the verses of the late James Agee, with whom he studied under Hillyer in the early '30s.* Legend says that the chair also confers upon the professor the exclusive right to tether a cow in Harvard Yard. But that, says Fitzgerald drily, "is a matter that each succeeding Boylston Professor must decide for himself." No farmer...
...Cover) Tied to a capsule by a 16-ft. tether, the first human satellite whirled through the vacuum of space at 18,000 m.p.h...
Autonomous or Umbilical. Much more interesting than the air lock, though, was Leonov's space suit. One Russian commentator called it "autonomous," which means that it is independent of the spaceship except for a simple tether. The pictures do show cylinders on Leonov's back that probably held oxygen, but the cable attaching him to the spaceship was thick enough to contain a good-sized oxygen tube. It may be an umbilical cord supplying oxygen from the spaceship's tanks, besides carrying wires for communication and telemetering. The tube could also carry away carbon dioxide from Leonov...
Dangerous speeds and forces develop quickly. If an astronaut is reeled in from 5,000 ft. away, he will speed up to 600 m.p.h. before he gets within 25 ft. of the ship, and the strain on his tether will rise to many tons. Assorted and intricate schemes have been suggested for the avoidance of this dangerous difficulty. But the day may come when an astronaut will break his tether and drift off into endless space because a comrade has reeled him in too fast...