Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunar surface. At 39,250 ft., the craft will begin rolling into a face-up position, pitching into an upright attitude at the same time. Twelve minutes later, its rate of fall slowed from 5,660 ft. per sec. to between 3 f.p.s. and 5 f.p.s., the LM will touch down. The first contact with lunar soil will be made by 5-ft. probes dangling from the LM's footpads. When the probes brush the surface, two lights the size of half-dollars will begin flashing in the LM under the white-lettered words, "lunar contact," and Armstrong will...
Founded by Caroline and a former art student named Rufus Harris, Release puts accused violators of Britain's narcotics laws in touch with lawyers and arranges for bail. From a four-room flat in London's Netting Hill Gate section, a staff of Release volunteers provides around-the-clock assistance. The agency advertises its phone number in the hippie press and at rallies organized to promote the legalizing of pot. It also circulates cards with advice to suspects. Example: "Request that any property taken from you is packaged and sealed in your presence," and "Be polite to police...
...remembers with exquisite intensity a deserted beach, a lover's touch, "the silence of the sky in my eyes." He gives a bluff account of a pond in the nearby park, some sniggering adolescents, the excrement of ducks. Dame Peggy makes her lines into the soliloquy of a Molly Bloom. Both casts have to make the most of the unspoken word, but the best-modulated pauses of all are hers...
...anything, not even existing. While we've been in the South, we've stayed places where there's been only fans. It is much better without air conditioning even if you're here in New Orleans where it's ninety something everyday with the humidity so heavy you can touch it in the air. Walking from an air conditioned room outside into the heat and then stepping back into the icebox again gives you headaches, diahhrea, and slothfulness. It feels real good to sweat: your body is keeping you cool the way God wanted...
...show, in Cincinnati, failed to sell a single picture to the public. He sailed in 1891 for Paris, where he must have seemed rather prim to the rowdy French art students who studied with him at the Academie Julien. Thanks to his Methodist upbringing, Tanner refused to touch wine at first. However, he fitted in well enough with American expatriate artists and connoisseurs. He became fast friends with Department Store Heir Rodman Wanamaker and Patent Medicine Heir Atherton Curtis, both of whom collected his work. In 1899, he married a pretty white singer from San Francisco...