Word: maneuverable
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While whatever is afoot in Moscow and Hanoi remains unclear, it is obvious that in the U.S. the climate over Viet Nam has changed considerably. The sharp edges of dissent have blurred a bit, and the extreme opposition-both left and right-has grown less raucous. In such an atmosphere...
When it hurtled back into the atmosphere, Apollo reached a speed of 19,000 m.p.h. At an altitude of 218,000 feet, small control rockets were fired, shifting Apollo so that its contoured heat shield provided a small amount of lift. As a result, Apollo literally bounced off the thickening...
Reduced Majority. Wilson's tactics brought bitter resentment in Parliament. As a maneuver to speed the passage of a wage-price freeze, Wilson attached the measure as a rider to an earlier bill that had already been debated in Commons. The effect was to bar debate there on the...
Ten minutes into the maneuver, Young realized that he had overthrust and was headed into an orbit aiming him several miles behind and above the Agena. Jamming his control stick down, Young dived the spacecraft in a brute-force attempt to get back on the correct trajectory. He failed, but...
After they had awakened, Young and Collins swung their craft into position and burned Agena's large thruster for eleven seconds. Again the astronauts felt the kick of the big engine. "It may be only one g.," said Young, "but it's the biggest one g. we ever...