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During ascent, the external tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery sheds a piece of foam slightly smaller than the piece that caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ; this foam does not strike the spacecraft.
Although the very subject matter caused it to be considered scandalous at the time, its brief revival three decades later, in the open and radicalized culture of the late 1960s, when the author was approaching his 70th birthday, found the once-ahead-of-its-time work judged as a tame and dated period piece below Achard's usual literary standard.
Another example of an oncogene is the Bcr-Abl gene found on the Philadelphia Chromosome, a piece of genetic material seen in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia caused by the translocation of pieces from chromosomes 9 and 22.
The piece caused an uproar, and the performance had to be halted: a complete performance of the work was not given until 1952.
Another common, running-related injury is chafing, caused by repetitive rubbing of one piece of skin against another, or against an article of clothing.
In another myth, the solar eclipse was caused by the magical dog of heaven biting off a piece of the sun.
This production was a tremendous success ; the newspaper Prager Oberpostamtszeitung called the work " a masterpiece ", and said " no piece ( for everyone here asserts ) has ever caused such a sensation.
One piece of evidence he uses in his probabilistic argument-that atoms and molecules are not caused by design-is equivalent to the conclusion he draws, that the universe is probably not caused by design.
This was a piece of string attached to a stepper motor and controlled by a LAN connection ; network activity caused the string to twitch, yielding a peripherally noticeable indication of traffic.
Perhaps the best-known piece of legislation was the Statute of Labourers of 1351, which addressed the labour shortage problem caused by the Black Death.
The blockage may be caused by something inside the bronchus, such as a plug of mucus, a tumour, or an inhaled foreign object such as a coin, piece of food, or a toy.
This piece was to be included in the 2007 Praxiteles exhibition organized by the Louvre Museum in Paris, but pressure from Greece, which disputes the work's provenance and legal ownership, caused the French to exclude it from the show.
The king's adoration for Diane caused a great deal of jealousy on the part of Queen Catherine, particularly when Henry entrusted Diane with the Crown Jewels of France, had the Château d ' Anet built for her, and gave her the Château de Chenonceau, a piece of royal property that Catherine had wanted for herself.
Based on a seven-month investigation, including a ground search that recovered debris from about 38 percent of the Orbiter, together with telemetry data and launch films, indicated that the failure was caused by a piece of insulation that broke off the external tank during launch and damaged the thermal protection on the Orbiter's left wing.
A power failure caused by a piece of rubbish wrapped around the overhead power lines caused trains in the West Ham area to become stranded.
The construction of the cafe caused a stir in Littlehampton, with some seeing it as an eyesore and others welcoming it as a world-class piece of architecture and a symbol of regeneration.
The damage apparently was caused by a piece of dirt that had rolled through the length of the reel, starting with a scene in which York's character has a confrontation with a pro-Nazi boarding house resident, and cut into the emulsion.
Discussions over her playing the role of Yum-Yum in a proposed revival of The Mikado led to another row between Gilbert and Sullivan that prevented the revival, and Gilbert's insistence upon her appearing in His Excellency ( 1894 ) caused Sullivan to refuse to set the piece.
A 1973 performance of Four Organs at Carnegie Hall in New York City nearly caused a riot, with " yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece.
In horticulture, a " cutting " is a piece that has been cut off from a mother plant and then caused to grow into a whole plant.
The use of lightweight foam to insulate the cryogenic tanks led to tragedy for the Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-107 mission, as a piece broke loose, damaged its wing and caused it to break up and be destroyed on atmospheric reentry.

piece and him
But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
How titillating it was to go among people who did not know him as the composer, but who talked in the most glowing terms of the promise of the piece after having heard the first rehearsals.
He hesitated for a moment when Michelangelo asked him to disrobe, so Michelangelo gave him a piece of toweling to wrap around his loins, led him to the kitchen to take off his clothes.
It took a piece of bad luck to show Michelangelo that the boy was devoted to him.
She skipped a piece of water at him and laughed, a funny, hoarse laugh he liked to hear.
Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.
Superman is given a piece of manufactured Kryptonite, but instead of weakening or killing him it drives him crazy, depressed, angry, and casually destructive, committing crimes which range from petty acts of vandalism to environmental disasters, like causing an oil spillage in order to bed a lusty woman by the name of Loreli in league with the villains.
The hotel Kaye and his colleagues stayed in suffered heavy damage ; a piece of the hotel's cornice was hurled into Kaye's room by the strong wind, nearly killing him.
In the second piece, a character explains that he is writing his portion because another had observed to him that the events surrounding the disappearance of a certain moonstone might reflect poorly on the family, if misunderstood, and therefore he was collecting the true story.
This was a most atypical piece of headgear for a Turkish sultan, which he probably never normally wore, but which he placed beside him when receiving visitors, especially ambassadors.
After being employed by a master for several years, and after producing a qualifying piece of work, the apprentice was granted the rank of journeyman and was given documents ( letters or certificates from his master and / or the guild itself ) which certified him as a journeyman and entitled him to travel to other towns and countries to learn the art from other masters.
Hesiod's patrimony there, a small piece of ground at the foot of Mount Helicon, occasioned lawsuits with his brother Perses, who seems at first to have cheated him of his rightful share thanks to corrupt authorities or " kings " but later became impoverished and ended up scrounging on the thrifty poet ( Works l. 35, 396 ).
Although this offered great opportunities, he recalls in his autobiography that the only equipment provided to him was a blackboard and piece of chalk.
One of his slaves gave him a piece of ivory into which had been carved four scenes.
When Superman followed the time trail of a piece of red rock that weakened him, he was able to trace his origin back to Krypton for the first time.
Director John Cassavetes told him after he completed Boxcar Bertha: " You ’ ve just spent a year of your life making a piece of shit.
During the drive back, Graham Chapman said that Cleese should eat something and asked him whether he fancied anything ; Cleese replied that he fancied a piece of cheese.
Anthony and his wife made a deal — if he could sell a piece of writing within one year, she would continue to work to support him.

piece and be
We need not, to be sure, expect to find such ideas in every piece of literature.
The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive.
N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.
There should be 10'' '' between the two parallel members and each should be 1'' '' from an end of the long piece.
After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.
A site may be a rundown slum or a desolate piece of desert in appearance today but have excellent potentials for the future with a little development or water.
If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??
could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.
The area adjacent to one edge of a piece of affixed material -- or simply of a painted-in form -- will be shaded to pry that edge away from the surface, while something will be drawn, painted or even pasted over another part of the same shape to drive it back into depth.
As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.
A piece of devotional material, such as The Upper Room, may be left in each home.
Following each instruction period a piece of literature dealing with the topic should be handed each one for further reading during the week.
If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.
For example, the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another.
A visible piece of astatine would be immediately and completely vaporized due to the heat generated by its intense radioactivity.
The main theme has a distinct 1960s feel to it and is known to be a highly complex piece of music due to the quick playing of the Violin.
Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.
NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

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