Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academician Evgeny Fedorov, one of the big brains of the Soviet space program, spoke briefly about the descent. It was accomplished with retrorockets, which slowed the Vostok and brought it down into a "braking zone" of gradually thickening air. There the ship was heated by friction and suffered tremendous strain, but the braking effect was distributed over thousands of miles of flight. "At the height of several tens of kilometers [one kilometer-.62 miles] above the earth." said Fedorov, "the spaceship's speed is reduced to a few hundred meters [one meter-1.094 yards] per second. With a shriek...
...Strain on Funds...
According to Anthony S. Keller '62, the Adams House director, the additional charges will be a serious and unanticipated strain on the group's funds, which are "always hard to come by." In addition, he charged that the additional expenses coupled with competition from the Pudding, "makes it very tough on House drama club...
...person is searched for. but it really describes how she is forgotten." Anxious, guilty, deeply unsettled and finally exhausted. Sandro looks to Claudia for-comfort? oblivion? sex? It's all the same to Sandro. He is one of those men who, at the least sign of strain or difficulty, reach for a woman the way other men reach for a cigarette. Claudia resists, but when the search takes Sandro to the mainland, she goes along, and the inevitable happens. At first they prosecute the search with determination, but as they become more and more absorbed in their own love...
...notes. But, like her son, Mother was a bit on the fey side. With the innocence they shared, they forded the gutter undirtied. A quality that O'Connor variously calls "gaiety," "simple-mindedness" or "belief in the world of appearances" made for survival against the O'Donovan strain, which was morose, complicated and given to inward broodings...