Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes after hitting the water, McDivitt and White were landed by helicopter on the flight deck of the Wasp. More than a thousand sailors crowded around to cheer them. There had been fears that they would faint, or at least experience dizziness the first time they tried to walk. But both saluted the U.S. flag, then strode without a misstep along the red carpet that had been laid down for them...
White said he knew that anything he said during his space walk would be heard over live radio and TV, confessed that he was worried about "What do you say to 194 million people?" He decided to chat with McDivitt as if no body at all were listening. "What you heard," he said, "was two test pilots conducting their mission in the best manner possible...
...other words use these to see him. In other words use these facilities just as you would use you medical facilities at home." This system has, for the most part, been successful; there are now many more hours spent by staff physicians on appointments than in the walk-in clinic. Some doctors, however, seem to prefer the clinic arrangement, and patients have not been thoroughly cooperative; about 20 per cent of the appointments for the special visits of dermatologists are not kept, for example...
...services, however, are commonly distrusted and characterized as too understaffed and unconcerned. Perhaps the most serious criticism is that the Health Services does not have an ambulance and sometimes appears unequipped to handle emergencies; house calls are made under only the gravest circumstances. 'Cliffies complain of the rather long walk from the quad to Holyoke Center when they are ill during the winter months. When they have called, they were merely told to take a taxi...
...much money to borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew Lane in London's City. Precisely at 11:47 a.m., he marches into the stock exchange and, while bro kers crowd around him, announces the bank rate - the price of money...