Word: slingshot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beverly Hillbillies," a sit-com about a family of "poor mountaineers" who strike it rich and move to the West Coast. In their Beverly Hills mansion, Granny prepares 'possum for dinner while daughter Ellie Mae plays with her new brassiere, which she thinks is a "double-barreled slingshot...
...Campaign appearances are orchestrated for the cameras (George Bush in Boston harbor; everybody in front of the Statue of Liberty), and speechwriters strive for one piquant quote a day aimed at the nightly news (Bush asserts that Michael Dukakis has been "opposed to every new weapon system since the slingshot"). And now come the commercials. The candidates have just released the first of an expected blitz of TV ads: upbeat and "presidential" in Bush's case; tartly critical of Republican economic policies in Dukakis...
...most striking new feature of the long-planned Galileo mission, first scheduled for 1982, is a looping itinerary that will provide momentum for the spacecraft by utilizing the gravitational fields of Venus and the earth. This "slingshot" routing became necessary when NASA officials decided that the rocket originally scheduled to boost the craft from a shuttle cargo bay could pose a hazard; it was replaced with a safer solid-fuel booster. Another change in plans involved putting extra gold sheeting on the Galileo spacecraft because of the scheduled pass close to the superhot atmosphere of Venus...
According to the student who was punished forbreaking the window, he and his three companionshurled the oranges with a slingshot from the NorthHouse breezeway following a drunken snowball fightin the Quad...
...clear to him that the clock cannot be argued with"). His sad fate is that his political ambitions conflict with a longing to chuck it all and live in rural, childlike innocence. Longing wins, and Darke moves to a Suffolk woods where he dons short pants, carries a slingshot and spends his days in a tree house atop a 160-foot beech. He is quite mad. His physicist wife explains the split between his secret existence and his official report: "It was his fantasy life that drew him to the work, and it was his desire to please the boss...