Word: passageways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acording to television reports, the assassin, a youngish man, about 5'5" and 130 lbs, with dark hair and a swarthy complexion was standing on some sort of a table. As Kennedy entered the passageway, fired a full chamber--eight shots--from a .22 caliber revolver...
Neurochemist Georges Ungar based his work on the natural preference of rats and mice for the dark; given a choice between entering a lighted or a dark enclosure, the rat will almost invariably enter the dark one. After constructing a short passageway between a translucent plastic box and a black box with an electrical grid for a floor, Ungar placed rats one at a time into the light box. As is their nature, the rats scurried into the dark box. They were in for a rude shock. Dropping a gate that prevented them from running back into the tunnel, Ungar...
Breaking out begins to seem somewhat less urgent, however, when Major General Frigg meets the villa's owner, the young and widowed Contessa di Montefiore (Sylva Koscina), who lives in the gatehouse outside the wire. And when Frigg finds a secret passageway that leads from his bedroom directly into hers, it becomes clear to him that his generals will need weeks of preparation-calisthenics, Italian lessons, etc. -before an escape attempt is feasible...
...opened "with your little finger," is assisted by a cylinder of compressed nitrogen gas. Better for escape during ground tests, the quick-opening hatch also provides easier exit and re-entry during operations outside the spacecraft in flight. Moreover, it assures astronauts of a simpler solution to docking or passageway problems when they return to the command module in the spacecraft designed to carry them to and from the lunar surface...
...machines responsible for this noise come from the Dematteo Construction Company, which was hired by Harvard to build a huge underground passageway for cars just north of the Yard so that students could walk to Memorial Hall and the Law School without encountering the traffic...