Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to send a man to the moon and back safely to earth" by 1970, particularly the development of a complex Apollo spacecraft to bear a three-man team. But Kennedy also plans to spend $1.3 billion for space research and technology by the Defense Department, the Weather Bureau, the Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies...
After the Normandy invasion, he commanded a brigade under General de Lattre de Tassigny on the Alsace front. Veterans of that winter campaign remember Salan as a competent and "correct" soldier: when touring outposts, Salan would remove his glove even in zero weather before shaking hands with a soldier...
...shoots the stars (or planets, sun or moon) to fix his plane's position above the surface of the spinning earth. Sextants have been vastly improved since the days of sailing ships, and a competent navigator can make a fix that is accurate to within ten miles. If weather permits, he takes about five fixes during a transatlantic crossing...
...Weather does not always favor the celestial navigator. Far up where modern jets fly (up to 40,000 ft.), heavy clouds are rare, and the brighter celestial bodies generally shine through thin, high cirrus clouds. But at twilight, when the sun drops just under the horizon, there are anxious stretches when a navigator can spot no stars against a bright sky lit from below. If he is heading eastward, he soon flies into darkness, and his guiding stars reappear. But fast jets almost keep pace with the sun, and on westward flights the baffling, starless twilight may last for several...
...faces of the people in The Savage Eye are not what our rural nostalgia is willing to come to terms with. The makers of this movie hate the city. They hate divorce and strippers and late-shift workers, and they miss men of independent, elemental, moral character--the weather-beaten faces of an idealized rural past...