Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sept. 18 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate nomination, but Eddie McCormack seemed to be having more fun. Right next to Teddy's headquarters, Eddie opened his own digs. Teddy's banner proclaims that HE CAN DO MORE FOR MASSACHUSETTS. Eddie ("THE QUALIFIED CANDIDATE") insists in small window signs that HE HAS DONE MORE FOR MASSACHUSETTS THAN THE MAN NEXT DOOR. And Eddie's aides were thinking of inviting the voters to sing along with them to the tune of Billy...
...Gaulle remarked, "These people really can't shoot straight." Then, staring at the bullet-riddled car, he added, "But I was lucky. This time it was a close shave." It was indeed. There were at least ten holes in the Citroen; one bullet, smashing through the rear window, missed De Gaulle's head by inches...
Nikolayev admitted to some misgivings during his descent from orbit: "Out of the window, I saw smoke, then flames, which changed from red to orange to yellow to blue. You hear loud crackling and you begin to wonder if the ship's outer covering isn't about to slough off. As the deceleration forces decreased, it became like riding a cart on a bad road." When he landed, Nikolayev said, "my first inclination was to kiss the earth of our motherland...
Backlight is the rear window. Mercury's medium-priced Monterey will have one that opens. Press a button and the center section of the backlight slides down on two runners...
...launch window" (margin of time in which a missile can be launched to fulfill its mission) of a second rocket trying to match the orbit of a vehicle already in space is only a very few minutes. Yet the Russians scored a virtual bull's-eye. "The Russians must have multiple launch pads, because you can't refurbish a pad in 24 hours and then check out another rocket for launching in the same place," said one top U.S. space scientist. The extra pads serve Russia well in the event that a rocket malfunctions during countdown...