Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathing will become irregular. The heart will double its normal rate. The instruments before his eyes fade from view in a brown haze. The feet and arms are now difficult to move because they are eight times heavier than normal. Consciousness clouds, and for a moment he will wait in heavy, silent oppression. Weightless World. Then his body will become suddenly light, as the rocket burns out at last, and he commences the fall toward the center of the earth that will continue for 4^ hours. He will have dropped, as if over a precipice, into a still and weightless...
...Trieste, wangled a small subsidy from the Italian government. In 1937 he bought a strategically located house in Trieste where he could photograph any future bombardment. It came when the Allies attacked the German garrison of the city in the closing months of World War II. "I had to wait seven years," he gloats, "but it was worth...
...miles on the water which the coaches regard as the minimum necessary. The time shortage has contributed to Coolidge's difficulties in sorting out the oarsmen; it has prevented the individual attention and complicated the process of shuffling line-ups, since there has been little spare time to wait and see how a boat would settle down together...
...would rather ride than walk those last few feet to the plane, Washington's new Chantilly Airport (completion date: 1961) plans something called "mobile departure lounges." Conceived by Architect Eero Saarinen, the lounge is a 15-ft.-by- 60.-ft. truck with upholstered seats; passengers climb aboard to wait until the plane is ready, are then hauled out to the ramp, where the lounge fastens to the plane's entrance door. Nobody has to move a muscle, though it could be dull...
...which negotiations are considerably more difficult. As U.S. Navy planes kept a 24-hour watch, a Russian fishing fleet of 64 boats cruised off Alaska's Pribilof Islands. "Research into fish migrations," explained the Soviets. The Alaskans see another purpose: they think that the Russians are lying in wait for the thick schools of salmon just beginning their annual spawning...