Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also on Hannifin's mind was a sentimental visit he paid this year to an old friend: Baker, who along with the late Able became the first monkeynaut pair in 1959. Hannifin found Baker at NASA's space museum in Tranquility Base, Ala., playing with a plastic model of the space shuttle and living tranquilly while others venture ever deeper into outer space...
...Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed...
...University has given permission for the organization to use the Weld boat house as a base for the "casual run." The event will start at the Larz-Anderson bridge and will go around the Charles River two-mile loops...
Republican professionals discount Haig's chances as a politician, mostly because he has no home base from which to run. Said John Sears, a strategist for Ronald Reagan: "It's very difficult to come in and grab the ball and run with it." Asked Conservative Fund Raiser Richard Viguerie: "Where would he get his money...
Perhaps the most dangerous development has been growing unrest in the military, still Assad's power base. Alawites hold senior positions throughout the armed forces, and Assad himself is commander in chief of the air force, but most of the enlisted men are Sunni Muslims who increasingly resent domination by their officers. Israeli intelligence experts speculate that a revolutionary mood may have swept through Syrian armor and infantry units, touching off fears of a coup. After the execution of the 15 brotherhood members, all of whom were Sunni Muslims, Rifaat's tank units rolled into Damascus and took...