Word: effortless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite the effortless maneuvering, Apollo's flight was not with out its niggling problems. An oxygen-flow warning light flashed on, but the astronauts quickly determined that a sensor, not the oxygen flow, was at fault Astronaut Cunningham, 36, a civilian physicist on his first flight, reported increasing pressure in a radiator that cools the spacecraft. The trouble was not serious enough to affect the mission. Astronaut Eisele, 38, an Air Force major also making his first space mission, reported radio interference that sounded like a commercial. "I', getting a hot tip on some hostpital-insurance plan from...
Britain's Michael Frayn has switched in the past few years from professional satirist-funny once a week in the London Observer-to novelist. Few writers have managed that transition successfully, and even fewer with Frayn's apparently effortless assurance. His first three novels (The Tin Men, The Russian Interpreter and Against Entropy) dealt humorously enough with contemporary life. His fourth is bolder and by no means funny...
...outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel of the sea. Life has become a painless, effortless, synthetically carefree adman's paradise. Meanwhile, the dirty work-garbage collection, refuse disposal, food production-is left to a wretched race of slaves, still living in hopelessly primitive and unsanitary 20th century conditions...
...Brown (Life Against Death), who argues that making money with money simply for money's sake is an infantile and perverse attempt to achieve immortality. But, Smith/Goodman says, Brown fails to account for the fun that can be had in mating dollars with other kinds of paper for "effortless" profit. For the happy few with surplus chips and the nerves to separate reality from sublimated desires and anxieties, investing can be a more stimulating game than working...
...Celtics' final victory was as complete as it was effortless: the old pros beat the young pretenders at their own game. A fast-breaking team that depends heavily on the accurate shooting of its "hot hands," Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, the Lakers were both outrun and outshot. Baylor scored 28 points and West accounted for 22, but Boston's Havlicek dropped in 40 and Howell hit for 30. The Celtics opened up a 70-50 half-time lead, and after that the Lakers never really came close. One big reason: 6-ft. 10-in. Center Russell...