He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

A similar tone of underlying futility and despair pervades the spy thrillers of Eric Ambler and dominates the most famous of all American mystery stories, Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

The result was a collection of 280 songs, ballads, ditties, brought together from all regions of America, more than one hundred never before published: The American Songbag.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Our companion was a huge, plain-spoken American sculptor who had been a sixteen-year-old rifleman all across France in 1944.

Walter Reuther, leader of the industrial union faction of the AFL-CIO, says another two years of this squabbling will be disastrous for all American labor.

But he -- and all of China -- wears the scars of American indecisiveness, and he knows what an uncertain ally we are.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

Several efforts were made in this direction, and though not all of them survive to this day, the Brown & Sharpe wire gage system was eventually adopted as the American standard and is still in common use today.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

A valid American driving license is accepted in all countries except Portugal, Spain, Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

He has announced results on Hokan, Penutian, Uto-Aztecan, and almost all other American families and phyla, and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; ;

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers, though ineffectively, just as the new nations of Africa and Asia protest them, with more effect, today.

It is merely the latest example of the leapfrog growth which formed the pattern of virtually all American cities.

When all has been said, however, the big branch store remains a major break with history in the development of American retailing.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

* 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

Beginning with Alan Shepard's Freedom 7 flight, the astronauts named their own spacecraft, and all added " 7 " to the name or callsign to acknowledge the teamwork of they and their fellow astronauts.

The opening ceremony included several astronauts from all eras of space exploration.

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

* On February 1, 2003, at the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.

* March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger ; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

** At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts on board.

The fire's ignition source was never determined, but their deaths were attributed to a wide range of lethal hazards in the early Apollo Command Module design and conditions of the test, including a pressurized 100 % oxygen pre-launch atmosphere, many wiring and plumbing flaws, flammable materials used in the cockpit and the astronauts ' flight suits, and an inward-opening hatch which could not be opened quickly in an emergency, and could not be opened at all with full internal pressure.

Challenger was destroyed during ascent due to O-Ring failure on the right solid rocket booster ( SRB ) on January 28, 1986, with the loss of all seven astronauts on board.

The duration record for a single spaceflight is 437. 7 days, set by Valeriy Polyakov aboard Mir from 1994 to 1995., three astronauts have completed single missions of over a year, all aboard Mir.

The actor concluded from the warm and intense reception he received that astronauts like John Glenn and aerospace industry engineers, secretaries, and shareholders alike all regarded Star Trek, and especially the character of Spock, as a " dramatization of the future of their space program ".

On July 23, 2004, McAuliffe and all the other 13 astronauts lost in both the Challenger and Columbia disasters were posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush.

* The plot idea of astronauts thinking they had crashed on an unknown planet, only to discover that in fact they had been on Earth all along, would be adapted by Rod Serling in his work on the initial screenplay of Planet of The Apes.

The remains of all seven astronauts from the Challenger disaster were discovered in the crew decks on the ocean floor.

Smith was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004, along with all astronauts lost in the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

With a single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date.

On average, however, they all had more flight experience than the male astronauts.

) " NASA required all astronauts to be graduates of military jet test piloting programs and have engineering degrees.

Amateur radio operators all over the world are able to speak directly to astronauts / cosmonauts via their handheld, mobile, or home radio stations.

He orbited the Earth 22 times and logged more time in space than all five previous Mercury astronauts combined — 34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds, traveling 546, 167 miles ( 878, 971 km ) at 17, 547 mph ( 28, 239 km / h ), pulling a maximum of 7. 6 g ( 74. 48 m / s² ).

Like all Mercury flights, Faith 7 was designed for fully automatic control, a controversial engineering decision which in many ways reduced the role of an astronaut to that of a passenger and prompted Chuck Yeager to describe Mercury astronauts as spam in a can.

* February 1 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing all seven astronauts on board.