Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hear NASA's detractors tell it, Glenn is manifestly unfit for space travel of any kind. Flying into orbit more than a third of a century after he last made the trip, more than a dozen years after most people his age have begun retiring, and only months after the death of fellow Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard illustrated the frailties of even the most resilient flesh, is, they argue, at best showboating and at worst reckless...
...noticed a parallel between the changes that happen to a body in space and those wrought by aging on Earth. What better way to study this phenomenon than to send an aged astronaut into orbit? And what better aged astronaut than the one who made the country's first trip...
...first lawmaker to fly in space. Senator Jake Garn of Utah and Representative Bill Nelson of Florida both took shuttle rides in the giddy, all-aboard days before the Challenger disaster. In the eyes of many, however, Garn and Nelson were mere junketeers, politicians who wangled a trip into orbit largely for the sake of going up--or, in the case of the famously space-sick Garn, throwing up. Glenn is no mere joyrider. "John has worked hard to prepare for this," says Senator Wendell Ford of Kentucky. "He's not doing it for the publicity. He is doing...
Greasy was undeterred. (I do so like perseverance.) He started on the clubs. Inspired, I launched into a story about a recent trip to a club in downtown New Rochelle. I was so thrilled to have something to say, that I almost told the part of the story about why I hated the club--all the guys were grease monkeys. I didn't know about their occupational titles, but each head of hair stored enough gel to fill a swimming pool...
...Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich makes points and lays in video footage for his presidential run with a trip to Ireland to visit his ancestors, members of the O'Doherty clan...