Word: unfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of those who watched the week unfold in Moscow concluded that this summit-the most important since Potsdam in 1945 and probably the most important Soviet political event since Stalin's death-could change world diplomacy. It was all the more impressive because it seemed not so much a single, cataclysmic event but part of a process, part of a world on the move...
...Unfolding Rover. Young and Duke are scheduled to begin their first EVA (extravehicular activity) on Thursday, April 20, at 7:19 p.m., E.S.T., some 31 hours after their landing on the moon. They are so confident of Apollo's systems that they will not bother to collect the familiar "contingency sample"-a few specimens of lunar rock quickly gathered by previous Apollo crews immediately upon emerging from the lunar module in event their mission had to be abruptly curtailed. Instead, Young and Duke will use the precious time to set up their equipment and experiments, unfold their car from...
...glazed; fish-shaped slit drums from Japan; 5-in.-long fiddles that 18th century dancing masters carried in their pockets; Indian randsringas, a form of trumpet (left); New Guinea bull-roarers (wood carvings designed to roar when swung over the head on a string); and walking sticks that unfold into violins for instant serenades...
...usual, Restic plans to unfold some new plays to fool the Tigers. Having broken straight dive plays for 70 yard touchdowns in recent games. Princeton hasn't needed much deception, but they, too, can be counted on to try a few surprises today. Bjorklund has already thrown one halfback option pass for a touchdown, and after watching the films of Harvard giving up a 76 yard halfback pass against Penn, he should be eager to throw the ball...
Given the mix of personal ambitions and animosities in Saigon, that plot was always less likely to unfold according to plan than to unravel. Last week, in a drama that "needed only Gilbert and Sullivan to set it to music," as one Western diplomat in Saigon cracked unhappily, the show nearly collapsed altogether...