Word: valentine
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...record: 211 days by Cosmonauts Anatoly Berezovnoy and Valentin Lebedev, aboard the Salyut 7 space station in 1982. The U.S. record is 84 days, set in 1974 by Astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson and William Pogue aboard Skylab...
Added his father, Valentin Berezhkov, a first secretary in the U.S.S.R.'s Washington embassy: "You can agree with me that a 16-year-old boy knows how to spell his name...
...journey, by contrast, was an undisputed success. A flying instructor and test pilot, she is a model of physical fitness. She and two male companions successfully hooked up with the Salyut 7 space station and spent a week on board with resident Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev. Savitskaya suffered no discomfort at all. She did, however, have to endure some heavy-handed Soviet male humor. Boarding the space station, Lebedev smilingly invited her to do the cooking and cleaning. Said he: "We've got an apron ready for you, Sveta...
...minor irritation, however, compared with the hazards of long-term space flights. U.S.S.R. Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev returned last December from their record-breaking 211-day flight in obviously debilitated condition. Soviet TV clips showed the cosmonauts being helped into a hot whirlpool bath. Even though they had exercised daily, the prolonged weightlessness left their muscles so flabby that for a week they were barely able to walk. Five weeks after the landing, TASS, the Soviet news agency, reported that they were in the Caucasus continuing "to undergo rehabilitation...
...vast legacy of influence all over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom, to infuse biblical subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism out of art-such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater worthy of Caravaggio himself. It is a raffish image of tavern survival: the old circular comedy, as the gypsy woman bilks a credulous soldier while a man steals her chicken and a little girl lifts the thief...