Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Class arrived in Cambridge, the hard work of the Program for Harvard College was essentially over. The Class had only to enjoy the fruits of the Program and watch the College build. The Class's stay here was relatively easy: money was no longer a pressing need at Harvard and '62 was assured of Harvard's vitality at least for the next four years...
Slower but more economical of fuel, the automatic control system keeps the capsule's attitude steady without pilot attention. It has infrared horizon scanners that watch the boundary between the earth's warm curve and the cold sky and use this information to correct a set of gyroscopes. The gyros in turn control a set of jets, shooting small spurts of peroxide through them whenever necessary. If the capsule has been turned away from the horizontal attitude, the busy little scanners and gyros will turn it back again at 8° per minute. This is fast enough...
...observe the effects of its space explosions, the AEC has deployed a net of supersensitive instruments, some of them halfway around the world. These mechanical observers will watch the sky for auroras, feel the soil for electric currents, measure changes in the earth's magnetic field. At least two U.S. satellites now in orbit also carry equipment to observe the experiments, and foreign scientists are preparing for their own test watch. Before each explosion, the AEC has promised, all the world's laboratories will get advance word of when to watch for electrical disturbances, spreading like gigantic ripples...
Jutes and Jim. Director François Truffaut's story of three young people in Paris is so spontaneous, sincere, generous, naive and natural that a spectator who sits down to watch it feeling old and dry may rise up feeling young and green...
...Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...