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Word: whips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without any additional thrust, Apollo's own momentum and the weak lunar gravity would combine to carry it around the moon and fling it back toward earth in a spatial version of crack-the-whip. Indeed, if a recheck of systems and equipment convinces ground controllers and the astronauts that serious problems have developed, the crew will merely continue in this new course and travel back to earth. But if everything seems all right, Apollo's powerful SPS (service propulsion system) engine will be fired for 246 sec. to slow the spacecraft and allow it to be pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...size pistachio ice-cream cones. Since then he has sketched a myriad of delightful "proposed colossal monuments" for Manhattan, including a giant Teddy bear for Central Park, and a mountainous baked potato for the front of the Plaza Hotel. Conceivably, Manhattan's festival organizers also expected him to whip up the baked potato. Instead, he had the city hire two gravediggers, who dug a 3-ft. by 6-ft. hole in Central Park, then carefully filled it in. He called it "an underground sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Avant-Garde: Subtle, Cerebral, Elusive | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...party leaders in the House won?and almost all won handily. About the only one who had any trouble was Democratic Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana, who got into trouble by supporting Administration civil rights bills. Even so, Boggs finally pulled through. Speaker John McCormack won in Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HOUSE: The Year of the Incumbent | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

Announcer: "We do hope that the new female students will finally be able to whip that impetuous tiger spirit into submission...

Author: By Paul Houston, | Title: Off-Key Band Shows Jangle Some Nerves | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

Charlie Thomas pumped in four goals, two on penalty kicks, as the freshman soccer team came from behind to whip Dartmouth 6-1 yesterday at Hanover. It was the Crimson's fifth victory without a loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Defeat Hanover Booters | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

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