Word: extract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day, the third foray from the lunar lander Falcon provided more scientific treasures. Returning to a core tube that they had driven deep into the lunar surface and had been unable to extract. Scott and Irwin tried again. "Ready," said Scott as they hauled at the tube, "one . . . two . . . three . . . uhhh." After six minutes of struggle, the tube came out. "Nothing like a little P.T. [physical training] to start out the day," said Scott. His exercises were only beginning. Both men struggled for 20 minutes-uttering at least one audible obscenity-before they could separate the sections...
...your issue of June 28, you published an extract from the novel August 1914 with the copyright ? Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Solzhenitsyn has authorized me to protect and administer his author's rights in all countries except the U.S.S.R. I have given world translation and publication rights to Luchterhand Verlag in Neuwied, West Germany. Therefore, the copyright should have read ? Luchterhand Verlag...
...Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal. She had to go to the George Washington University Hospital emergency room, where the staff performed what Piemme terms a "hashishectomy." Though the girl claimed not to have smoked either hash or marijuana...
Fearing just that, some Allied strategists quickly charged that Mintoff's maneuvers sounded like the start of a new Cuba. To other observers, however, it looked as if his main goal were simply to extract more money from Britain. Under an agreement signed in 1964, Britain has been paying a modest ?5,000,000 (now $12 million) annually for its right to station forces on the island. Moreover, other NATO nations used Malta's harbor and facilities without paying the Maltese anything-even though Malta is not a NATO member and has no treaty or agreement with...
...more than 400 years, some of the world's best opium poppies have been grown in Turkey. The Turks use the seed for cooking oil and food seasoning, the stalk for fuel and animal fodder. From the pod they extract raw opium for the making of medicinal morphine. Currently, the poppy provides the main source of income for 80,000 farmers and earns Turkey about $5,000,000 per year in foreign exchange...