Word: oxygenating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fears began on Columbia 's ninth day in orbit as it circled 155 miles above the earth. The flight had already been lengthened by 24 hours to give ground scientists more experiment time. This was made possible by the shuttle's unexpectedly low use of its "consumables" (oxygen, fuel, electric power). But when Columbia, in preparation for its descent, fired the small maneuvering rockets, or thrusters, hi its nose, the jolt rocked the ship. The usually laconic Young said that it sounded like a "howitzer blast going off in your backyard...
...when he graduates, Gizzi knows what he doesn't want to do. "Two summers ago I worked on a G.M. assembly line. If I ever considered not finishing up my education, that job changed my mind," he recalls. "Then last summer in addition to studying for LSATs, I delivered oxygen for a surgical supply company. I saw some really sad things, people who didn't have much. It really makes you stop and think, and thank God for what you have. I know I never want to go into the surgical supply business...
...explain that. It was a match easily caricatured: the growing fame of the male painter overwhelms the more vulnerable mate, his penumbra dims her light, his demands blot out her needs. This scenario is a fiction. Pollock's talent did not use up all the oxygen in the room. If he had married someone with a less acerbic and combative temper than
...made his way to the hospital soon after watching the first paratroopers dropping from the sky near his home facing the stretch of wide white beach known as Grand Anse. He had been here ever since. The hospital, he said, had no X-ray machine, little oxygen on hand, and only five pints of blood...
...officials nonetheless insisted that the failure of the resupply effort in no way endangered the Salyut 7 cosmonauts. As if to prove the point, Moscow television last week showed Alexandrov and Lyakhov bantering with mission controllers. Still, after three months in orbit, the cosmonauts need fresh supplies of food, oxygen and fuel. To provide those materials, the Soviets last week launched an unmanned Progress 18 space "freighter" that was expected to dock with Salyut...