Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Launching of the big-thrust Saturn vehicle, now under development by the NASA team headed by ex-German Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...Born in Vaucluse, a graduate of St. Cyr, the French West Point, he was a general staff officer when war broke out in 1939. After the French collapse, Challe entered the Resistance and is credited with sending Eisenhower's headquarters in London the entire battle order of the German Luftwaffe, as well as the Nazi air defense network in France...
...where a confederate was supposed to fling open the gates and let them in. But the chief of the military forces arrived before the rebels, barred the gates and organized a stout defense. For the first time in his life, Rebel Betancourt fired a rifle. It was an ancient German weapon with a brutal kick. When he is asked whether he killed anyone, he dodges. "Just say I was there," he growls. Well shielded, the barracks defenders drove off the attackers, the revolt flopped, and Betancourt fled into exile...
Before the year ends, the German-born space scientist added, the Soviets may well have put a man into orbit around the earth and dropped a package of live instruments on the moon...
...sense of adventure had gone out of our lives, to be replaced by grimness and fear and a perpetual, mounting weariness of body and spirit." His U.S.-built MS light tanks-known to Crisp and his men as "Honeys"-mounted 37-mm. guns, whose shells bounced off the heavy German panzers like peas. To knock them out, Crisp and his fellow fighters had to race their tanks around the panzers, shoot them from behind or from the flanks while using one or more of themselves as decoys. For a month sleep averaged a couple of hours a night...