Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. Each was bombarded with a cacophony of piercing noises and incredible high-frequency sounds, also shut into a dark, soundproof room for three hours to measure his adaptability to isolation. Before, during, and after these tests came perhaps the most thorough physical examinations ever devised-plus a total of three doses of castor oil, five enemas. Which was the worst part of the tests? Answered one Astronaut, Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "If you figure out how many openings there are in the human body, and how far you can go into any one of them, you can answer...
...Total Darkness. Soon the satellite will go over the horizon from the sun and plunge into total darkness. There is no twilight in space-only sunlight and darkness. All about him will be a black emptiness and silence...
...bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern matters such as the construction of jet planes, but a total acceptance of his own godhead. Once, remarking on his previous incarnation as the 13th Dalai Lama, he said musingly: "It is funny that the former body was so fond of horses and that they mean so little...
...large delegation of medal-bedecked Academy brass looked on approvingly as the Midshipmen pounded four Harvard pitchers for 17 hits, and rolled up the biggest run-total achieved against a Crimson team in several years...
...things for Harvard, however, the University did things for World War II. 25,540 of the almost 100,000 living alumni and students served in the Allied forces and 455 of them never returned. In addition, 654 Faculty and staff members, one-third of the peacetime total, were serving in either military or government capacities...