Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
...sits intensely motionless. His hands, clasped in the center of the table beside the water he never stops to drink, move only rarely to say something of extreme importance. For 45 minutes there is nothing but Borges' locating the words to articulate what Professor Raimundo Lida called "his fervent and clairvoyant meditations...
...organ, dimly at first, begins to play a soft, floating melody. Then the drums pick up, and the bass quickly joins in with a muffled, steady beat. Finally, a fellow in a red-striped T-shirt, smiling but otherwise motionless, steps to the microphone, and, about as pleasantly as a human being can make a sound, begins to follow the organ with his voice. The lyrics are simple: "lalalalalalalala." But the meaning is clear...
...minutes to drive the two miles from the airport's entrance to the Eastern Air Lines terminal. Another left Greenwich, Conn., early enough to reach Kennedy a full hour before his scheduled 8:30 p.m. Swissair departure, only to find himself at the end of an endless, motionless line of autos when he got to the field. Both missed their flights...
...first three U.S. astronauts to die on duty were motionless and earth-bound when they were killed last week. With helmet faceplates closed and suits pressurized, they reclined in a row on padded couches in their cylindrical Apollo capsule, running through the countdown of a simulated launch, a routine but rigorous rehearsal for the real thing. They had been there 5 hrs. 31 min. when fire exploded in the cabin. Within seconds, Lieut. Colonel Virgil...