Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulations, some banks might have failed. In a banking system based on confidence, that might have touched off a financial panic, something that the Federal Reserve is sworn to prevent. Still, Board Chairman Bill Martin admitted to Congress that the "safety valve" had become "an escape hatch through which restraints are being avoided." The banks also flooded the country with new credit cards, which stimulated consumer spending and certainly did not reduce
Four hours after Wednesday's early-morning touchdown, Conrad will swing open Intrepid's small hatch. Backing out on his hands and knees, he will tug a small ring to open an equipment bay on the LM and expose a 12-lb. color-TV camera aimed at the spacecraft ladder. While a TV audience of millions watches. Conrad will descend to become the third mortal to step onto another world...
...some subconscious joie de vivre underneath his cynicism by his earlier pictures can't possibly believe that after The Fortune Cookie , where he shows us in no uncertain terms how much he despises us all. You don't exactly endear yourself to people if you do the kind of hatch work on the human race Billy Wilder does-and if I were him, I'd move quickly down dark alleys...
...situation summary" did not list a single menacing locust swarm. The FAO was pleased but not triumphant. Quite likely, as the FAO was the first to point out, an atypical lack of rainfall had inhibited breeding, since the locust's eggs must absorb their weight in water to hatch. Thus the FAO cautioned against concluding that the locust had simply dropped out of the picture. "He is still a global menace in a trough of inactivity," said Paul G. Hoffman, the U.N.'s development program administrator...
Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...