Word: thrusted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ford has said very little over the years about the Nixon tapes that thrust him into the presidency. But there is a part of them that still upsets him. "One of the most disappointing things about Nixon was that language he used as revealed in the tapes," recalled Ford. "I knew Dick Nixon for 25 years, and I never heard him use that kind of language, not in conversations with me. I was so shocked by it that I asked Henry Kissinger if he had ever experienced Nixon using such foul language. He hadn't either. That opened...
More offbeat allegiances, too: One woman strolled around topless with a sign reading, "Let Our Bodies Speak"; a speaker claimed KPFA had broken the story of a UFO cover-up. Groups' representatives thrust leaflets at each other, signed each other's petitions and joined each other's mailing lists and donor rolls. Speakers who were black, Native American, Puerto Rican and gay, took the podium to tell the crowd how KPFA had spread the word for their movements when no one else could, or would. One woman shouted, "We're winning! And we're winning because of our unity...
More offbeat allegiances, too: One woman strolled around topless with a sign reading, "Let Our Bodies Speak"; a speaker claimed KPFA had broken the story of a UFO cover-up. Groups' representatives thrust leaflets at each other, signed each other's petitions and joined each other's mailing lists and donor rolls. Speakers who were black, Native American, Puerto Rican and gay, took the podium to tell the crowd how KPFA had spread the word for their movements when no one else could, or would. One woman shouted, "We're winning! And we're winning because of our unity...
...hours during its roundabout nine-month, 500-million-mile journey to Braille, the little craft was accelerated by a futuristic ion-propulsion engine that provided gentle but continuous thrust. And for much of its mission the ship operated somewhat independently of its controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It diagnosed its own systems and navigated with the aid of an electronic brain reminiscent of HAL, the willful computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "What was science fiction a year ago is now science fact," exulted Marc Rayman, the chief mission engineer...
...list of questions about possible mechanical malfunctions. The plane's wing panels, or spoilers, were supposed to open and slow it down during landing, but the flight-data recorder indicates they never opened. The co-pilot has said he thinks the pilot properly activated them. The plane's thrust reversers, which also help slow a landing plane, turned on and off instead of remaining on throughout the landing. But the flight data show that the pilot, who operates them manually, may have turned them on and off intentionally to give him better control over the plane...