Word: visor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press of deadlines led TIME to scramble its eggs and foul its anchors. Artist Boris Chaliapin painted the portrait in little more than nine hours, using as his primary guide a 1963 black-and-white photo of Bucher as a lieutenant commander-without gilt on his cap visor...
...about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
Both social workers and the teenagers are enthusiastic about the program. Babbled Arnett Waters, a Harvard freshmen, who is a job super- visor, 'The job program is excellent. It inculcates in the boys some good working habits as well as giving them some spending money." Several of the boys felt that the program was a good supplement to their vocational training in high school. One boy said, "This program helps keep me in school. If I flunk a subject, then I can't work here. They give me a tutor...
Breathing heavily and perspiring, Cernan soon saturated the atmosphere inside his space suit with more moisture than the suit's evaporator unit could handle. Moisture condensed and then froze on the cold plastic of his helmet visor, almost totally obscuring his vision. After increasing his oxygen flow in a vain attempt to clear his visor, Cernan continued to check out the AMU. But just before he was scheduled to emerge from the adapter and jet off into space, Commander Stafford reluctantly scrubbed the experiment. "No go for the AMU," he reported to Houston. "The pilot's fogged...
...Cernan groped his way back to the open hatch, Gemini circled into daylight again. Sunlight hitting the visor warmed it, but failed to evaporate the moisture. "I can see through my nose, but I can't see through my eyeballs," cracked Cernan. Then, two hours and nine minutes after he had stepped out into space, he climbed back into his hatch, panting with exhaustion...