| 单词 | rocket |
| 例句 | The plane lifted off, rose hard and fast, and cleared the rockets. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The truck rocketed blindly up the snow-covered highway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He says that if you put one identical twin in a high-speed rocket for a week, he’d come back to find his brother ten years older than he is himself. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I struggle to my feet and watch as the rocket grows smaller and smaller and finally winks out of sight in the stratosphere. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I sit in the chair closest to the door and listen to the rocket clock ticking and Ms. Kenney typing and answering the phone with “Woodson Elementary, how can I help you?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “Why did we blow up our rocket?” asked Michael. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Quentin and I sat in the backseat, gently cradling the rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On those days when the rocket fire eased up a bit and the gun- fighting was light, Hassan would take Sohrab to the zoo to see Marjan the lion, or to the cinema. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Outside in the world, volcanoes erupted, governments rose and collapsed and bartered for hostages, rockets exploded, walls fell. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Hugo’s father had stepped into a dark room and, on a white screen, he had seen a rocket fly right into the eye of the man in the moon. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z This was more than five times faster than the Buick could do on Little Daytona, and I found it difficult to imagine one of our rockets could really go that fast. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They returned to the rocket in the late afternoon. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That didn’t stop Langley engineers from imagining how the missile bodies and rocket engines and reentry problems involved in high-speed flight research might also apply to space vehicles. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their rockets had reached speeds of Mach 15 in flight, and they were confident of their abilities to lift a payload—a satellite and a human passenger—into orbit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “What if we melted rocket candy before loading it into the casement?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His ideas also led to the founding of a Society for Spaceship Travel, whose members tried experimenting with small liquid-propelled rockets which were generally recovered by parachutes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I suspected there were dimensional relationships involved in rocket design, such as a proper ratio between the area of the guidance-controlling fins to the area of the casement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The reason we were able to go so fast is that we started out riding on a rocket—a huge rocket taller than a football field standing on end. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the television, where Dr. von Braun’s rocket kept taking off again and again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Every mission involved the Mercury capsule, though the rockets—Scout, Redstone, and Atlas—varied. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rocket was coming, although the rockets supposedly traveled faster than sound. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Fire off a rocket flare in his face? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Just remember your promise. No sight or sound of any rockets in Coalwood.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if they were going to do all the things they always did in the summer, like play in the hydrant and buy rocket pops from the ice cream man, without him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I just had to see your rocket, Sonny,” she said mischievously, taking me by my arm and walking me away from the other girls. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I remember standing on the terrace and staring up at the sky as the foolish rockets burst and fell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You see, Captain, what happened to everyone on the rocket? They couldn’t help themselves.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They watched quizzically as Smith lined up his horse, stepped behind him, and hit the bell, sending Seabiscuit into a rocket start. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No morning passed that he didn’t freeze a ton of meats, vegetables, and lemon cream pies, enough to last ten years, until the rockets came back from Earth, if they ever came. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The dream starts with me at the top of the rocket, holding on to the steering wheel. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sense in all of us going after our rocket, so after a brief discussion, it was decided Quentin and I would go. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was slow going, but after a week I had the rocket ready. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “All I know is I want to work on rockets,” I added, just in case we were having an argument that wasn’t apparent yet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Moments later he came running back to the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Images of the moon and the rocket and the explorers shimmered across the old man’s face and onto the sea of his beautiful drawings, tacked to the wall behind him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The rocket lay on the launching field, blowing out pink clouds of fire and oven heat. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z From Lookout Hill behind me, another rocket shot skyward, bleaching the night, and I saw the ship more clearly as the sea began to take it under. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z A rocket solves this problem by carrying everything it needs with it, not only fuel but also the oxidizer needed to mix with the fuel and cause it to burn. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time, it was the rumble of rockets in the west, coming from the direction of Rarteh-Char. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “But is that possible? Did you come by rocket? Has space travel been going on for centuries?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul’s winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I could just imagine him high on a gantry, lying on his back like Michelangelo, working with a wrench on the fuel lines of one of his rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She must have seen the ground drop out from under his feet as the elevator shot up like a rocket. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At Saint Elizabeth College, in Morristown, New Jersey, a woman raced down a dormitory hall screaming, “A rocket is coming from Mars. We're all going to be killed!” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z My basement lab stank one last time with zincoshine preparation, six rockets curing at once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “And how are your rockets doing these days?” he asked, clearly wanting to change the subject. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The ball rockets out of the feed chute, and this time it’s heading for short right-center. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Finally the police got so many complaints from his neighbors that they told him he couldn’t shoot off any more rockets in that neighborhood. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Quentin and I did most of the talking, boisterously proclaiming how difficult the calculations were and describing how our rockets flew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I think this is going to be a great rocket.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Totally panicked, certain we’d killed some unsuspecting playgrounder, we pushed through the crowd and found our rocket buried in the grass, with only its fins and nozzle showing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve got to figure out how to make our rockets fly straight,” Sherman said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I fired off a rocket flare, but I aimed it poorly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The other boys discovered their own truths when we built our rockets, but those were mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I lean forward, like I’m a rocket, like I. Am. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The way the man told it, our rocket was a beautiful and glorious sight, and I guess he was right as far as it went. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His evidence was mounting and profound; this was something different, this device that captivated the human senses, and, in a way, recognition of the risks required neither science nor proverbial rocket science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But it had only been fairly recently that man had begun to think seriously about using rocket power to leave the surface of the earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Gilly’s heart gave a little spurt and flopped over like a dud rocket. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Quentin and Sherman were busily digging out the rocket, finally pulling it out of the packed earth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was so cold when they first came from the rocket into the night that Spender began to gather the dry Martian wood and build a small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Vonetta and Fern had been good earlier, watching and listening as the space shuttle orbited around the moon, taking its time to fire off another rocket to land. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Professor Ekwenugo had always been his proof that Biafra would triumph, with the stories of rockets and armored cars and fuel made from nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I carried the largest piece of the rocket, a center section of the casement, to Mr. Caton. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When the town people found the rocket at sunset they wondered what it was. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the rockets began to rain down on Kabul, people ran for cover. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I passed the rocket book around, inviting all the boys to inspect the pages of equations. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Tell them thanks, but I’m not in the rocket business anymore.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rocket made climates, and summer lay for a brief moment upon the land.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The boys got you another rocket all ready to go. How about you loading it and let’s fire it off this weekend?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With a burst of puppy rocket fuel, Tater sprang out of Abby’s arms and flew into the train. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The rockets have stopped, but the Khmer Rouge soldiers are getting closer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A book about rockets and space travel written in 1948, a retractable fountain pen, a bottle of dark red ink that looked like blood, and a star chart. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter’s precious Saturn Y rocket stood ready and Ma Charles shook her tambourine. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Somewhere, a game show audience cheered, fireworks rockets whistled through the air, and several geese honked out a “Hooray!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Around the rocket in four directions spread the little town, green and motionless in the Martian spring. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It had meant so much to me to tell her about each rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mom, I’ve got to get more rocket stuff somehow. Could you talk to Dad or somebody?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to me, considering all the rockets that I read about blowing up down at Cape Canaveral, that was the way Wernher von Braun and the other rocket scientists did their work too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Similarly with spaceships: no matter how much rocket power they have, they can’t accelerate beyond the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “All those women in bikinis strutting around Cape Canaveral, and there’s old Wernher and his boys with their big rockets sticking up in the air. How do you feel when our rockets work?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Seeing that rocket come at me was almost like being back in Korea,” he said shakily. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This is a bit like what happens when one fires a rocket upward from the surface of the earth. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Five women were accepted for cosmonaut training—two from flying clubs, two parachutists, and a rocket propulsion engineer. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z There was a small rocket ship reclining upon a hilltop nearby. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad told me about him. Goddard invented the first liquid-fueled rocket.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Lynn planned to become either a rocket scientist or a famous writer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Abruptly the room took off on a rocket flight into the clouds, it plunged into a lime-green sea where blue fish ate red and yellow fish. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocket men looked out and saw this. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He fired a rocket at the spot the enemy boats were reported to have been seen. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then finally the pop of the rocket that meant the bulls had gotten through the people in the ring and into the corrals. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Without any advice from me, he lengthened the rocket to two and a half feet, a monster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The book also called for us to make decisions we’d never made before: How high and fast was our rocket to go, and how heavy was our payload going to be? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Again and again the rockets sped into the air like arrows, and the sky became crimson and gold. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The irony was not lost on me when I climbed out of a bunker one morning and found a dud Russian 122-mm rocket buried nearby. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They had been compensating for it by aiming our rockets at a small angle against whatever direction the wind was coming. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You must tell the truth. I think you know very well what this is. It is one of your so-called rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We loaded the rocket on the pad by holding it upside down, tapping the casement with a hammer to get the gray powder to settle as we poured it in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Below, the captain and his crew glanced longingly back at their pretty rocket ship lying on the hillside, so sweet and lovely and fine. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a bad scene in a movie, because the microphone makes the throat-clearing sound like a rocket lifting off. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “The rocket boys tell me you’re their favorite teacher, and I must say I’m impressed by their taste.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The machinists waved me into their shop a week later to show off a rocket that they had built on their own. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Momly laughed and Uncle Tony joked me, talking about, "It don't take a rocket scientist to know rocket scientists are real, Patty." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “There’s going to be peace, Inshallah, and happiness and calm. No more rockets, no more killing, no more funerals!” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She woke up to the whistling of rockets streaking overhead. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As his snout was about to smack into the wall, he sprang up, pushed off the ground, and soared like a furry rocket over the pointy tips of the stockade fence. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Once you pick up some speed, on a bicycle or in a rocket, you can steer more smoothly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To change our orbit this time, we used the rocket engine on the far end of the docked Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Aerodynamic theory and intuition suggested that the rocket and spacecraft combination should be as streamlined as possible, to minimize aerodynamic drag. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Somewhere above, the rockets burned down to civilize a beautifully dead planet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will this make your rockets fly better?” she asked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There's just one catch: Liberating hydrogen from hydrazine is . . . well . . . it's how rockets work. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bang! There’s another rocket out in space!” he shouted so all could hear. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why would anybody want to write something on you jerks anyway? So you shoot off rockets, so what?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As it climbed above the atmosphere and the air ran out, the aerospace plane would have to switch to rocket engines. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The floaters may propel themselves through the planetary atmosphere with gusts of gas, like a ramjet or a rocket. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo handed her the book from the Film Academy library, open to the page with the film still of the rocket in the moon’s eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Well, looky what we got here—Homer’s little rocket boy,” he said nastily. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The language of our rocket engineers became part of our everyday speech. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of his eye, Nico saw Jason Grace rocket into the sky with Piper in his arms, flying straight towards Festus. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was an oxidizer, which, when combined with other chemicals, produced heat and gas, necessary to make a rocket fly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Our school mascot is a rocket, and right about now I’m wishing I could shoot off into space instead of waiting for Mr. Tobin. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z People who have made fortunes from technology—Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon, and Google—are taking the vision that led to their successes and translating it into developing rockets and spaceships. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The Saturn V rocket seemed too monstrous to be made to heel by the control room in Houston. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The rocket fire had extinguished, though smoking bronze exhaust vents still jutted from the stern. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Eight hundred thousand paper links have turned the overstuffed structure into a rocket. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z With a rocket this size, I thought perhaps we were exceeding the critical dimensions of zincoshine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The young fox took off like a rocket. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z To fill it took a pot and a half of rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If his theodolite worked, trigonometry would give us the altitude of our rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At lunch during the following days, Quentin and I worked on how to build a rocket, sketching out crude drawings and theorizing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had written a lot about the rocket his heroes were voyaging in, but nothing on how it worked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As darkness fell, everyone watched the sky for the first rockets of the night’s display. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Kind of like what Cinderella would wear if she were a six-year-old sucking a rocket pop by the neighborhood pool. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The BFG went bouncing off the ground as though there were rockets in his toes and each stride he took lifted him about a hundred feet into the air. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I am so proud of you. Um, would it be okay if I and some of the other girls came over to see you launch your rockets?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Belter, you fly up and up like a July Fourth rocket, and bang! There you are, cinders, spread all over space. Them crackpot scientists, they don’t know nothin’, they kill you all off!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we hear a shrilling whine before another rocket ruptures nearby. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran his fingers around the base of the rocket, studied carefully the soldered washer, sniffed speculatively at the cured black-powder mix. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I kept searching the sky for any sign of the rocket, but I knew with my poor eyes I wasn’t likely to be the one who saw it first. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Look! This is how a rocket nozzle works, why it’s designed as it is. Did you even bother to read about De Laval nozzles?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was at least relieved to hear our rocket hadn’t hit anybody. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By using the plants, animals, and tempera ture, they had changed the harsh Arctic into a home, a feat as incredible as sending rockets to the moon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look, I made a butterfly rocket. Want to see?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z All the pride Americans had felt in the Big Science that had won World War II was draining away at the spectacle of multimillion-dollar rockets exploding in flight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z At school, I consulted with the other boys and it was agreed we would load Auk XX with melted rocket candy the following Friday and fire it on Saturday. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “You don’t talk about your parents flying around outer space in a rocket ship. You don’t talk about leaving the planet. And you stopped wearing crazy costumes.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This works rather well, for example, when planning the flight of a rocket to the Moon. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I stare at the rocket clock in the office, and the second hand has stars on it that go around and around. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Roy Lee said, “Any girls in this club, or do you have to have a rocket in your pocket?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I hate to break this up—believe me, I do,” he said, “but we’ve got a rocket to launch.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Even stopped going to the park to launch rockets with his friends. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Before the waiter brought the sherry the rocket that announced the fiesta went up in the square. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z After we dug a hole in the slack and poured a five-by-five-foot slab of concrete for our launchpad, Cape Coalwood was ready for its first rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the rockets,” she said; “there must be a ship gone ashore there in the bay.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The elevator rushed on at the speed of a rocket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z But if light is composed of particles, one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs, rockets, and planets are. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, I hadn’t fired any rockets since his last order to stop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The meal ended with wine brought from the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet, Jake, Tom, and Basil threw themselves to the ground while the rocket hissed overhead and then slammed into the road behind, skittering along until it plowed into a muddy ditch. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z According to a newspaper report, he was building a huge monster rocket called the Saturn. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “And I’ll be in my rocket, in space, and all this will be gone.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinosaurs to rocket ships: the oldest things, and the ones still in the future. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I immediately saw the reason our rocket had lost its thrust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I washed your rocket things and put them in a paper sack in the cupboard,” she said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Only three blocks from Giti’s house, a stray rocket struck the girls. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And for Tomas the rockets, far away, waiting for him, and the town and the women from Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We ignited Columbia’s rocket engine once, for just three seconds, to adjust our course slightly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A jingling music starts up and the air around her surges with the ricocheting voices of vendors hawking toasted com and toy rockets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the ground’s instructions, and our own rocket engines, we changed orbit several times, and slowly approached our Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to know everything about rockets and medicine and the galaxy. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I let the roar of the crowd fill me like rocket fuel, powering me past my teammates. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I told you the two trains met at Eisenhower Park at the bottom of the rocket slide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The harder you stomped on the plastic bottle, the more thrust you generated, and the farther the foam-tipped rocket flew. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “What’s this I hear about you not working on your rockets anymore?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One night, rockets landed near their camp, and in the confusion, many people escaped and ran away, including Khouy’s wife. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a puff of smoke at the rocket's base, but nothing else happened. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I hunch down until I’m as low on the board as I can go—the change speeds me up, and I rocket toward the marble. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Davy Mountain. Between Coalwood and Welch by the way a crow flies. Or a rocket.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Quentin got to it first, getting down on his hands and knees and peering at the rocket’s base. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They walked back to the rocket, clicked the mechanisms of their rifles, put thick grenade packets on their backs, and checked the free plan of pistols in their holsters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Had my mother mail me this too. My old trig book. Learn this stuff and you can calculate how high your rockets fly.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But he can be whatever he wants. Lynn is going to be either a rocket scientist or a famous writer.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “We may have reached the maximum performance with rocket candy,” Quentin said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But the rocket would remain in the same space-time and therefore the same history, which would have to be consistent. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorrento quickly adjusted for this, and the rockets sprouting from the head began to tilt it skyward. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A half hour later they all came running back with Billy holding the rocket over his head, yellow jackets in close pursuit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And then the lifesavers atop Lookout Hill fired another rocket into the wet sky, and I whirled in its light to see where the ship had foundered. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z There were rockets like a flight of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On February 5, 1958, the hapless Vanguard team tried again for orbit and failed, although this time their rocket managed to at least clear the gantry before it blew up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tail held straight out, he streaked like a rocket across the lichens, turned, and came back with the hide. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, it’s all I’ve got. Anyway, potassium chlorate is unstable under heat and pressure. It's too dangerous for rocket fuel. What do your parents think about the BCMA?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I stand up and walk to the outer bars of the rocket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Not me. I just want to know how to build a rocket.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That night none of us can sleep as we listen to explosions of mortars and rockets in the distance. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind pulled at the dust and the shining rocket and pulled at the accordion, and the dust got into the vamped harmonica. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we knew it, the Eiffel Tower’s arms were letting go of the rocket and we were all counting down with mission control. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Bombs and rockets followed in intensifying numbers until the climax of the show, when an elaborate wire network erected at Festival Hall, on the lakeshore, abruptly flared into a giant explosive portrait of George Washington. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Good Lord, what a dream that was,” sighed Tomas, his hands on the wheel, thinking of the rockets, the women, the raw whisky, the Virginia reels, the party. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, Roy Lee came by in his car and I put the rockets in the front seat with us for the ride down to the Cape. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had decided it would be my rocket laboratory. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Realisation came like a rocket, swift and fiery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d put off asking anyone until it was too late, telling myself it didn’t matter because true rocket scientists didn’t have time for such things. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He unfailingly sought me out at the Big Store when he saw me to ask me how I was doing and, lately, what was going on with the rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Before he got there, the rocket attacks in his patrol area were happening once or even twice a week. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z It was called the California Arrow, though Red Rabbit was a rocket compared to it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Sputnik chases its rocket trail back to the launching pad and polio stalks the land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That meant the rocket was on our nose, instead of behind us as usual, and its thrust would push us forward against the instrument panel instead of back into our seats. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Supposedly Thomas had wanted to color, but I’d insisted that we launch my new rocket instead. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z We kept trying to figure out the “why” of rockets as well as the “how.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then everybody rocketed from their borrowed church hall wooden folding chairs to meet the next battle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And all the time they talked: they talked of rockets, orbits, space; gravely they pondered the seven stomachs of a cow; tomorrow’s weather; but neither mentioned dogs. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The British used rockets later aboard their warships during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Hugo thought about his father’s favorite movie and wondered briefly if the man in the moon had to wear an eye patch after the rocket flew into his eye. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The only problem was, it wasn’t our rocket that streaked into that dark, cold, clear, and starry night. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Tally followed at top speed, rocketing up the spindly track. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z In 1986, the Shuttle Challenger was destroyed about a minute after liftoff, when a hole burned through the side of a solid rocket booster, causing a gigantic explosion. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rocket won’t fly unless somebody lights the fuse!” he declared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “These two rocket scientists were killed,” Terryl began, as she launched into the story of the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z His touch was feather-light, stroking my skin with a kind of reverence, but the instant his lips found mine again, a single thought was enough to rocket me out of the honey-sweet haze. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He wanted to go to Mars on the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny built a rocket? He doesn’t even know how to put the sprocket chain back on his bike when it slips off.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Obviously a hazardous time, with gigantic engines spewing out high-temperature exhaust gases, and terrific wind blasts as the rocket ascended. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen here,” he said to the unseen rockets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There his task was to stop the North Vietnamese from firing rockets into Danang. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The questions launched through his mind like bottle rockets. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stop smiling, not even when he was describing the thermodynamics of the fuel for the Saturn rocket that would carry the command capsule and the LEM. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He and I wowed the people who came to see our exhibits, telling them about our studies and what it was like to fire off a real rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I heard the rocket and I knew I could not get into the ring in time to see the bulls come in, so I shoved through the crowd to the fence. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A Republican senator from Pennsylvania called the Mercury capsule-Atlas rocket pairing “a Rube Goldberg device on top of a plumber’s nightmare.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So there went the cooling rocket, around a bend, gone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. von Braun’s rocket lifted off the pad in a caldron of fire and smoke and went right up into the night sky without a moment of hesitation. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the night before they left Earth, the hustling and hurrying, the rocket that Dad had found somewhere, somehow, and the talk of a vacation on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we would use the Agena’s fuel and rocket power to boost us into a higher orbit, where we would find the second Agena, which had been in orbit for four months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He caught me idling, doodling the design of a rocket that could fly to the moon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I heard you got your rockets flying,” he said to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The men in the rocket saw his shadow lingering in the stone-hut doorway. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Looks like your boy wants to be a rocket scientist, Homer!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The last rocket that could, Saturn 5, was retired years ago and has never been replaced. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The heavens exploded into the red glare of rockets and white fountains of light. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He went down to the rocket field in the early morning and yelled in through the wire fence at the men in uniform that he wanted to go to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every time they launch something down at Cape Canaveral, it’s like...I just want to help out somehow. But I can’t. If I build my own rockets—” I stopped, not certain I was making sense. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe someday I’ll study mathematics at college and become a rocket scientist. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An ejection seat is simply the aluminum seat the pilot sits in, with a small rocket motor built into the back of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of their avatars shot off like rocket ships, streaking the cloudless sky with white contrails. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z We fired Columbia’s rocket engine shortly after we swung around behind the moon’s left edge, out of touch with the earth for the first time in three days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, having no more territory to explore, they invented ways to leave their homeland, first on wings and later on rockets, until finally, in July 1969, they touched the face of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherman was the only rocket boy I could round up on short notice. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I came up with a solution, but . . . remember when I burned rocket fuel in the Hab? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But if I work it out, I’ll miss the rocket, sir!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z You had to be in the middle of nowhere when you were building and testing rocket boosters—not just for the space shuttle, but for military missiles, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z An Agena is a slim fuel tank about thirty feet long, with a rocket engine sticking out of one end and a hole in the opposite end. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither of us knew how rocket fuel was supposed to burn. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We were going to learn all there was about rockets and start building them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were my shelves, heavy with books and stacks of note paper filled with the calculations that had defined our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was the biggest, heaviest rocket we’d ever built, four feet in length, and I found myself wishing on the drive down that Mr. Bykovski was around to see it, and Mrs. Bykovski too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Where did you get the rocket?” whispered Timothy, for the other boys were running ahead. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I told Mr. Bykovski I was building a rocket and needed a washer or something welded to the bottom of a tube. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was certain it looked as good as any nozzle on any rocket taking off from Cape Canaveral. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z David shouts the seconds, like an announcer at a rocket launch. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A year after his father died, Kim Jong Eun solidified his legitimacy and his hold on power with the successful launch of a three-stage rocket that put a satellite into orbit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They must’ve had a lot of those rescues because, a few weeks ago, the city announced plans to tear the rocket slide down. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “I suppose you got names for your rockets?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Two months later, Project Vanguard, managed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, also managed to launch a satellite, though the achievement was overshadowed by Vanguard’s many rocket failures. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I omitted mention for the present of my little relay satellite, set into orbit from the rocket; I did not want to give them the impression that their sky was full of my junk. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do we know how to build a rocket?” he wondered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Both men were scientists commuting to their jobs at ATK Systems, where they were helping build rocket boosters. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z All around us people cry and scream for help as more rockets rain on the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward some young ladies chanted like cheerleaders, “Go, rocket boys, go!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Besides,” said David, “I thought you wanted to build rockets.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That young fool set off a bottle rocket from my window last month. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you decide to switch to a rocket ship for transportation,” Dad joked at first, rubbing his back, “you’re gonna need to hire Superman to get it in the car!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I risked loosening die thermos cap a litde more, and a fresh burst of wind sent us rocketing around the northern tip of Virginia Beach into Chesapeake Bay. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, a glimpse of the giant rocket, JimmyTrotter’s precious Saturn V, materialized out of snow, fuzz, and horizontal lines. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The main part of the museum was one huge room with rockets and airplanes hanging from the ceiling. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z We knew the fins would probably burn off, but they would at least give our rockets something to sit on. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The flare went rocketing up toward the window in a long white arc and then they could hear the man screaming. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z EST, the Atlas rocket boosted Friendship 7 into orbit like a champion archer hitting a bull’s-eye. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Magazines, brought from Earth on the silver rocket a month before, fluttered, untouched, burning brown, on wire racks fronting the silent drugstores. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Steamer” was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When we heard the last thunk of rocket remnants hitting slack, we went out and began collecting the pieces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Caputo got a spot and felt the chopper climbing quickly to get above the range of enemy rockets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mrs. Roberts predicted you'd be a rocket scientist because you are awesome at math and are in general out of this world. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The upper stage of the Saturn V moon rocket was converted into living quarters for three astronauts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the puny pops of Roman candles and the hisses of launching rockets, we could hear the vachettes bitterly lowing from within their nearby trailer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z We can calculate reliably the path a rocket will take as it flies from the earth to Mars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Miss Riley told him our purpose and showed him my rocket book. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Within a minute, my kite was rocketing to the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was a picture of a rocket next to the headline. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In the distance, through the window, they saw rain gleaming on the sides of the rocket which had brought them from Earth. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove out on the slack and unloaded our rockets with tender care. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The elevator shot straight up like a rocket! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Auk XI, which had rocket candy inside that I had not moistened, leapt off the pad with a satisfying hiss, but then exploded, steel fragments whistling overhead while we hit the dirt inside the blockhouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An additional series of meteorites rocket at their skulls at a billion miles per hour. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I studied them carefully, and then I remembered reading how Wernher von Braun had built rockets when he was a youngster. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I yelped, just to get Uncle Tony back for the rocket scientist burn. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “Show him you can do something! Build a rocket!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe one day we’ll have a trophy in here, Sonny, for our rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The space-time may be so warped that it is possible to travel in a rocket into the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At about six forty-five P.M. the operator released the sleds, and soon they were rocketing along the ice at maximum speed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If it has a fairly low speed, gravity will eventually stop the rocket and it will start falling back. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew was if I found tooth marks on one page of my rocket book, I was going to declare hunting season on a certain bushy-tailed rodent. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I hated that it was my rockets that had made Dad give in to the union. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then he gained speed and rocketed toward the distant glow of the sun above. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The next night I again went up my secret path and found my rocket waiting for me in a cardboard box outside the gate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There was no doubt in my mind, either, for right away the rocket engines began jerking back and forth, swiveling to keep us in balance as we climbed. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Betty’s engine started with a snarl, and suddenly we were rocketing backward. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z For the finale the fair’s pyrotechnicians launched five thousand rockets all at once into the black sky over the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He stood in the hot atmosphere generated by the fiery rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You find some odd senses of humor. Now, take me out to your rocket. I wish to see it.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They seemed to be emptied of all their blood and their rocket fever. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z During the launch phase of the mission, a computer in the Atlas rocket, programmed with the launch coordinates, communicated with Mission Control. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She hauled herself up and saw that the ship was bouncing over the waves at incredible speed, trailing fire like a rocket. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Before she could open her mouth to stop him, he was off, like some unstoppable rocket. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Massive, tan, and almost win- dowless, it looks like a hangar for a short, fat rocket. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst case was the deceleration an astronaut would feel if his rocket engine quit before he reached orbit, causing him to plunge back down into the atmosphere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We climb onto the roof, My brother first, And we watch the sky For rockets. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It made a very loud noise, as if it were a broken rocket ship working to escape the earth’s atmosphere. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Much as I dream recurringly about shrinking babies, I dream that the sky is covered from horizon to horizon with rows of airplanes, dirigibles, rocket ships, flying bombs, their formations as even as stitches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sea bottom the wind stirred along faint vapors, and from the mountains great stone visages looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next second, the horseshoe slipped out of Yedsha’s slimy hand and rocketed at Sigurd’s face. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "Happy Fourth of July," Turtle shouted as the first rockets lit up the Westing house, lit up the sky. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sure do. How about we stop all this rocket stuff and get us some girlfriends?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Because later, when we're down by the pond and the first of the rockets is streaking up, up, up, Freak is making a fuss because he can't see. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Captain Black looked out the rocket port with his face that should have been the face of a man eighty but seemed like the face of a man in his fortieth year. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariam sat watching the girl out of the corner of her eye as Rasheed’s demands and judgments rained down on them like the rockets on Kabul. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z To make this calculation, we needed a way to hold a rocket in place while we measured its thrust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We were off, not with a huge bang but with a small bump, as we felt the rocket come alive and begin to fly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think anything in there will help us build a better rocket,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z French rockets go up, which unfold a silk parachute to the air and drift slowly down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a pair once with rocket ships, and another pair with lizards. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Then, later, I heard about her getting felt up at the rocket slide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Its sides were coated with ice, where the moist Florida air came in contact with the freezing-cold skin of the rocket in the vicinity of the liquid oxygen and hydrogen tanks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In the following days, I quit building rockets, quit studying my book, and quit going to the machine shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dad came off the porch and picked the rocket up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Our own homemade rocket. My people, we are on our way.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The buildings that hadn’t entirely collapsed barely stood, with caved in roofs and walls pierced with rocket shells. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His chief charge, though, was designing the next generation of rockets. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a joint was too weak for our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Goddard solved the problem by moving to the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, where he could fire his rockets in peace. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even better than the Shuttle, which must be launched with rockets, would be an aerospace plane that could take off from a runway, like a jetliner, and fly up into orbit by itself. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sigurd whipped the sword hard at Kin, and the horseshoes rocketed at him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z In his free hand, he held a rocket launcher. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A rocket bomb must have dropped quite near at hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I used a steel tube with a butt weld down the length of it. We don’t have much of the seamless kind. Too expensive. We used what we had on your last rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The science museum in Chicago has a rocket simulator.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And if heaven was on the other side of a black hole, dead people would have to be fired into space on rockets to .get there, and they aren’t or people would notice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z ATK built rockets under a contract from NASA, which in 1999 awarded Keith the Silver Snoopy Award, a prestigious honor reserved for people who show great dedication in bringing safety to flight missions. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I wanted to make it clear to the other boys that we were adding to our body of knowledge even if all this rocket did was spew on its launchpad. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A thousand rocket bombs would not batter it down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “We want our rocket to go to an altitude of precisely two miles. The equations to make that happen are in that book. Do them!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z John Mayer tackled orbital mechanics, Al Hamer lectured on rocket propulsion, and Alton Mayo handled reentry, the problems faced by an object returning to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z South Vietnamese soldiers, stationed just down the road, had seen them enter and had opened fire on the village with rockets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I think that’s the reason, in my dreams, my first kiss took place at the rocket ship. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z On June 4, 1960, the Big Creek Missile Agency, fresh from its medal-winning performance at the National Science Fair, is sponsoring a day of rocket launches at its Cape Coalwood range. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She wanted to know all about my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The headmistress let out a yell that must have rattled every window-pane in the building and for the second time in the last five minutes she shot out of her chair like a rocket. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Birds hit the wall of fire and lit like bottle rockets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d anchored a barge offshore and loaded it with rockets the size of Patriot missiles. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z There was a touch of fire across the sky, and an instant later the auxiliary rocket landed beyond the camp. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Emblematic of this rocketing growth were the Olmec's neighbors in Oaxaca, the Zapotec, whom Flannery and Marcus have studied for more than two decades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On October 4, 1957, they made good on their promise: The Soviet Union launched a rocket into space containing Sputnik, a 185-pound satellite capable of orbiting the earth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Sir,” said Samuel Hinkston, “it must be, it has to be, that rocket travel to Mars began in the years before the first World War!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There were racks of rockets standing to be touched off to call for help from the artillery or to signal with if the telephone wires were cut. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t know it was a rocket but Lieutenant Gearhart did. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On many nights leading up to my first day of school here, I’d climb to the top of that rocket and let my head fall back against the steering wheel. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z When I came back up the road, Mr. Dubonnet and Tom were inspecting the rocket with the other boys clustered around him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet tapped the rocket casing, and lumps of unburned propellant and ash dropped out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I grab onto the outer bars of the rocket and pull myself up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “We’re trying to learn how to build a rocket, gentlemen. This isn’t for fun.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I raised a cheer that turned into a strangled yelp when I realized the rocket was heading for the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We rocketed up and away in the net, the tension that had been holding us down suddenly released, and soaring over the lip of the wall, we collapsed in a heap on top of it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A roar swept through the crowd as I flew in low over the shield and rocketed to a halt above the others. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We also worried about the rocket blast from Eagle, our lunar module, which might kick up a lot of dust and prevent Neil Armstrong from being able to see well enough to land. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocket stood in the cold winter morning, making summer with every breath of its mighty exhausts. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In a November issue of Life, I found, to my great interest, drawings of the internal mechanisms of a variety of different kinds of rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It would beckon the rocket down to Mr. Hathaway and his family. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The roof rocketed beyond the treetops, a geyser of wooden confetti. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then only again the rockets, the singing of the shells and the stars there—most strange. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I put down the spoons I’d been using to measure the ingredients of the rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When we found the rocket, the nozzle was completely worn through. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We were almost at the end of the clearing when we heard the whizzing of another rocket grenade approaching. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I trained astronauts, talked them through their science experiments while they were in orbit, and often went to Cape Canaveral for launches of the space shuttle and other rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny, do you think you could build a real rocket?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds—scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The necessary dust would require 1,200 Saturn 5 rocket boosters to be transported from Earth to Mars; even then, the winds might blow the dust off the polar caps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone had called Baby-Who-Would-Be-Hazel something before her parents flew in on their rocket ship to get her, in the place where there was culture. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Alex twisted the accelerator and yelled out as the machine rocketed away, almost throwing him backward off the saddle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z We shot out of the mountain like a bottle rocket aimed at the stars. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Frightful saw the hawks coming, maneuvered her wings, and shot herself up into space like a rocket. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Finn folded his arms across his chest, then winced as a bolt of pain rocketed around his torso. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We saw some big rocket ships like the ones that go into outer space. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not if we work on building a better rocket engine. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “I just wondered how big a rocket it would take to put her into orbit.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He reached across the rocket and tapped the side of my head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Billy had run after the rocket and came racing across the creek holding it high over his head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He wanted the CIA to pass him instructions for how to give them a large package, containing information on every known missile or rocket inside the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The iron tip was shaped like the nose cone of a rocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My excitement subsides, I wait cautiously until the first rocket goes up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Large footprints came from the rocket to the door of this stone house. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of fuel does a rocket use?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Beau came rocketing out the door, his tail slapping my legs. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “It’s simple reading comprehension. Read the paragraph and summarize, in a couple of sentences, what it was about. That’s it. It’s not rocket science.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The mission control man reported that one of the astronauts said, “It feels good,” although I doubted sitting on a million tons of rocket fuel could feel good at all. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I felt nearly ashamed to bother him with my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I started to think about what an adventure it would be to work for him, helping him to build rockets and launching them into space. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We did this by firing our retro- rockets, four solid-propellant rockets mounted in our tail. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We shoved the rockets into the bag and the bag under the bed and got the edges of Bobby Gene’s comforter pulled down just in the nick of time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Anya nodded and stumbled back from the railing as tools flew off the walls, rocketing for Sigurd. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was only when I was in high school and began to build my rockets that I finally understood why. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I ask, wondering if he’ll tell me to strap myself to a rocket and light the fuse. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z It was our highest rocket yet, but it wasn’t what my nozzle design had predicted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A rocket, then, was sort of a hard balloon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We got hit by a rocket attack that night. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s where ‘the rocket’s red glare’ comes from in ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’ October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The brass band banged off around a corner, leaving the rocket to shine and dazzle alone in the sunlight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom had said for me to build a rocket, show him what I could do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I might have worried even more about Vanguard’s failure if I hadn’t had rocket problems of my own. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d imagine myself a Goliath on the soccer pitch, with legs like rocket launchers. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The bottom half of the rocket slide is hidden in darkness. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “All right then. Let’s give you an oral exam. What makes a rocket fly?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And when the last rocket burst and the cheering died away the night that had been fine before seemed dull and heavy in contrast, the sky became a pall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She talked of his many accolades as a rocket scientist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The swastika in the science room hasn’t stopped us; it’s given us rocket fuel. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Tonight he was rocketing up the social ladder. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z When Colonel Aureliano Buendía returned in the midst of exploding rockets and ringing bells, a children's chorus welcomed him to the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Your job, Sonny, is to build your rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a bewitching moment: a gorgeous train rocketing through the winter landscape carrying five of history’s greatest architects, all in the same car, gossiping, joking, drinking, smoking. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I brace myself, but he rockets right between us with no attempt to check his speed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Each mission presented myriad pathways to disaster, starting with the notoriously temperamental Atlas rocket, a ninety-five-foot-high, 3.5-million-horsepower intercontinental ballistic missile that had been modified to propel the Mercury capsule into orbit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Basel and Muhammad made paper rockets and kites. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z It was noon by the time we were ready to get our first rocket off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You’re the only kids in this county who are shooting off rockets, so it has to be you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “If you want to fire off your rockets, here’s the place,” Dad said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z O’Dell provided me with a small discarded plastic flashlight to use as the body of the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And so what that Apollo 7 successfully detached from the Saturn rocket to practice the rendezvous they would have to perform perfectly for a moon shot? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z After we’d calmed down a little, we cleaned up around the blockhouse and carried our rocket and our other gear to Roy Lee’s car. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to build a rocket,” I said as the little rodent launched himself at my shoulder. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Before, a binding agent had solved the problem with black powder, and melting had produced our reliable rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When we came down off the mountain with our rocket, all the observers were gone, but Buck and the football team were back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s still a playground rocket, not a real one, but every time I turn the wheel to the left, the trees in the park lift up their roots and sidestep it to the left. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I lifted the pot and tipped it carefully, the rocket candy pouring out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But all of us work on our rockets,” I protested. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And I didn’t wake until I heard the lighthouse siren singing in the distance and saw the flash of a rocket shot off from Lookout Station, and knew a ship was going down. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z When the airplane is about to crash or blow up, the pilot can fire the rocket, which blasts him—still strapped in his chair—free of the airplane. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at all this, we know we’re not so hot; we’re kids in rompers, shouting with our play rockets and atoms, loud and alive. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was in place for us to take the next big step in rocket design. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Peering out the window, Allen could see rockets speeding toward them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Tell ’at rocket boy we’ll all be there!” someone yelled, and then I heard them do a simulated countdown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The guest rockets, burning the sky and turning the weather from autumn to spring, arrived. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still too icy for the bus to run the next day, but we rocket boys didn’t try to cross the mountains again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Our conversation was singularly dull as we each wondered how to bring electric rockets into it,” Charlotte recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel, Thomas Byrdsong got a head start on the long road to the Moon by testing a model of the Saturn rocket, a launch vehicle the size of a redwood tree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Its sound rocketed forward, and the laughter that followed traveled the same trajectory. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z We launched water rockets, tested gravity in a drop tower, and controlled a robotic arm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “And another called Over Jordan! Ha! Well, tote that rocket, boy, lift that rocket, boy, go on, get blown up, see if I care!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, we just blew up our rocket, is all,” said Timothy, trying to sound matter-of-fact. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know, every so often I think you really are a rocket boy.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry you lost your rocket stuff,” he told me, truly contrite. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I am nervous. It’s silly to think there’ll ever be any more rockets. Except one, perhaps, if Edwards and his wife get through with their ship.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wanted to be a rocket scientist, like my dad. That’s what I wanted to be, if I wasn’t going to make the Olympics.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z On the television Mr. Cronkite said they were going to send a rocket ship to the moon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z While our audience cheered, we ran after our rocket and watched the last of its sputtering rocket candy burn up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The robot hurried out to Garrett’s rocket, got in, and flew away. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The sounds of the explosions rattled through the hooches, and we couldn’t tell where the rockets were hitting. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I counted the four rockets as they fired one after another, and they really felt powerful. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wrote him about you, Sonny. I thought he’d like to know who was getting ready to come help him build his rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I fear the ratio of the mass of propellant added compared to the mass of the empty rocket will be too small,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z O’Dell sat the rocket on its base and then used a rock to hold it steady. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I poked the tail of the rocket at him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Pine Knob was okay to blow up bottles, but it was impractical for a rocket range. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From what mountain, what cave, what small last race of people remaining on this world when the rockets came from Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I had noticed our old rocket-candy rockets wobbling when they broke the plane of the mountains and got caught in the wind stream coming across the ridgeline. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In this domain, the prize for efficacy goes to the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, whose brevity grants residents of Hong Kong a rocketing memory span of about 10 digits. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Pieces of rockets, old nose cones, bent casements, and scarred nozzles were scattered everywhere. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But a complex thing like a rocket, no, you couldn’t keep it secret.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The pixies shot in every direction like rockets. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I'm pretty sure the something he's protecting is not secret information about our space program. He hardly looks like a rocket scientist.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Over in the production group at ATK, a whole different division, they sometimes had trouble with a machine that inspected the booster rockets’ O-ring grooves to make sure there was no corrosion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When you build your rocket and it goes off way high in the air, people may say let’s give Sonny glory for it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Auk XII’s exhaust trail was still a fast stream when the rocket faltered and began to fall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And why couldn’t he be as proud of my wanting to build rockets as he was of Jim wanting to play football? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A scroll shot from the river like a miniature rocket and landed in front of him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Known as "front-line winged rockets," each of these missiles contained a warhead equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But most astonishing of all, the force of the explosions actually lifted the enormous giant clear off his feet, like a rocket. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Smart beyond your years. There are places for a boy like you. General Heissmeyer’s schools. Best of the best. Teach the mechanical sciences too. Code breaking, rocket propulsion, all the latest.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I did the calculations, assuming our rocket reached maximum velocity immediately upon launch and rounding off the altitude to ten thousand feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She listened to the rattling of automatic gunfire and counted the rockets whining overhead as the house shook and flakes of plaster rained down on her from the ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We went back and looked at the first rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the old days, when China wanted to launch a rocket, they just launched it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The more successful Goddard s rockets became, the more noise they made. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jessica’s face looks like if she let out all that pressure, she’d fly into the air like a rocket to the moon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z There was no sign of our rocket at all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the sound of those rockets alarmed you,” said Frith, “they went off so very sudden.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As the plane taxied down the runway, the enemy suddenly let off a burst of rocket fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Grandma was waving something around, and when Genie’s eyes finally focused for real, he saw the last thing he ever expected to see in his grandmother’s hand—a fistful of bottle rockets! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was much shelling and many rockets in the rain and machine-gun and rifle fire all along the line. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Delivered in grenades, rockets, and torpedoes, those incendiaries played a key role in Islam’s eventual defeat of the Crusaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And spinning his chair about, Mr. Curtain rocketed from the room. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m trying to better understand why two rocket scientists are dead. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The river of chocolate was flowing very fast inside the pipe, and the Oompa-Loompas were all rowing like crazy, and the boat was rocketing along at a furious pace. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “We’ll post a guard here at the rocket and go armed, just in case.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But near the top, where the rocket climbs higher than the swings and the trees, moonlight hits the metal bars all the way up to the peak. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z JimmyTrotter said the white clouds were there to keep the rocket cool, but I doubted anything could keep that rocket cool. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z By the time you walked into the park, I wanted to be inside that rocket and all the way up, just like in my dreams. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The moment the cover had been removed, they had started jabbering and rocketing around, rattling the bars and making bizarre faces at the people nearest them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z What did you have to do, what did you have to sign, whom did you have to know, to get on the rocket? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It pierced the aluminum floor of the cabin; there was a shrill yell, and the machine went rocketing up into the air with all the acceleration that its super-charger could give it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The hangar doors slid open, and the Vonnegut rocketed out the launch tunnel and up into the starry sky. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I had half a mind to stick a booster rocket under his waistband and launch it into orbit. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He glanced at the rocket and suddenly began to shake all over. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Basil ignored my reaction, one that he was probably used to getting in McDowell County, and told me he was going to make me and the other rocket boys famous. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “All this rocket stuff they’re doing down at Cape Canaveral,” he said, “is just burning up taxpayers’ money to scare the Russians. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Auk XII, on the pad, was built to the design we had more or less standardized, but how it would perform loaded with melted rocket candy was a complete unknown. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Welcome, Reynard,” said Mr. Curtain, and with this he turned and rocketed to the front of the room, where he spun once more to face the students, throwing his arms wide. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. If they make it. Family rockets are made for travel to the Moon, not Mars. We were lucky we got through.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The business of creating commercial rockets and ships is comparable to the early day of developing computers and the Internet. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z This was a rocket ride, and it thrilled her. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stars and moons and what looked like a rocket ship. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I start to get a rocket launch feeling. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z We used a wrap of wire to make a loop at the top and bottom of the rocket and then slid it down the rod. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Percy,” she called, “whatever you’re going to do—” The lion roared and swatted her like a cat toy, sending her flying into the side of a Titan rocket. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Arrows of gold and silver streaked into the cloud like rocket tracers and exploded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z It was as black as space itself and shaped like a rocket lying on its side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Sure enough, the elevator had shot right up through the roof of the factory and was now rising into the sky like a rocket, and the sunshine was pouring in through the glass roof. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z From my viewpoint at the top of the rocket, I saw you come in at the far end of the park. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z For the first time since we began building our rockets, I hesitated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Now they wanted to be shouting drunk, firing off guns to show how wonderful they were to have kicked a hole in space and ridden a rocket all the way to Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z All of us rocket boys would go to college, something not likely in pre-Sputnik West Virginia. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “It is nice to be able to tell somebody when our rockets work,” I admitted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Another is hot pink, with candy-colored rockets arranged in bouquets on its counter. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, the whistle of a rocket flies near us and hits our shelter! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some nights, when the light of rocket fire was so bright a person could read a book by it, sleep never came. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “And when this rocket blows up and you don’t have a clue what caused it?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The theory of relativity says that the rocket power needed to accelerate a spaceship gets greater and greater the nearer it gets to the speed of light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I had used up the rocket flares, I expended the hand flares. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The boat shot along the surface of the river like a rocket from a bottle. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z So it was a Butterfinger Blizzard and then a stop at the shed for bottle rockets, for roman candles, for Black Cat crackers and cherry bombs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z After World War II, Wernher Von Braun, the leader of this effort, came to the United States with some of his experts and began building rockets in this country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The BFG changed into his famous top gear and all at once he began to fly forward as though there were springs in his legs and rockets in his toes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you sisters hold it down?” he griped as we chattered about our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z All along the way, the same thing, men here, women there, night watchmen, rocket pilots. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocket began, like the gunpowder that first powered it, in China where it was used for ceremonial and aesthetic purposes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have finished faster, but I figured caution's best when setting fire to rocket fuel in an enclosed space. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the most incredible example of sensual hallucination and hypnotic suggestion I’ve ever encountered. I went through your ‘rocket,’ as you call it.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s like gently tossing a ball upward, having it slow down initially, but then rocket upward ever more quickly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When I turned back to loading rocket candy, I felt something I had never felt before—powerful, confident, and angry all at once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had to build a rocket and I didn’t have a clue where to start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d agreed to launch it close to the mine because I didn’t really think our rockets were going to work. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z What did you and Hassan call it, “the Wall of Ailing Corn”? A rocket destroyed a whole section of that wall in the middle of the night early that fall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Buick was loaded down with the panels, posters, and rocket hardware of my fair exhibit. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then the rocket went up that meant the steers had gotten the bulls out of the ring and into the corrals. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z After every rocket blast, Laila raced to the street, stammering a prayer, certain that, this time, surely this time, it was Tariq they would find buried beneath the rubble and smoke. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I didn’t actually see the rocket hit the jet but I saw the jet twist in the air, hesitate for a long moment, and then start down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cadillac rumbled down a two-lane highway, kicking up trails of dust and exhaust, a dented rocket ship blasting through time in reverse from the future to a land that Wi-Fi forgot. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And here we all are to-night, in various houses, in various beds, with no weapons to protect us, and the rocket lies in the moonlight, empty. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seconds later rockets began arcing over the lakeshore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The rocket landed on a lawn of green grass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Sputnik weighed 184 pounds, and obviously required a very large rocket to accelerate this mass to a sufficient speed to achieve orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She called out, “How’re your rockets doing?” and I nodded to say they were okay and so was I. I was having a good time, all my worries about rockets and everything else put aside. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “How about that, old son? Is that rocket fuel or what?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “You think those ten thousand new-type work rockets will come through to Mars?” she said at last. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z It is launched vertically, attached to rockets, but it has wings and can glide back to a runway and land like an airplane. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But there had been a gun on the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Nok gripped the bench in the back of the speedboat as it rocketed across the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Outside in the distance, the mortars and rockets continue to explode through the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the ancestors of the gigantic Saturn V moon rocket. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a means of determining the relative merits of propellants. By using the number denoting the specific impulse, calculations can be made to determine the exhaust velocity of a rocket and ultimately its overall performance.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When rocket propellant burned, it first produced a river of gas that flowed into the convergent section of the nozzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe there’s a certain father who’s jealous of a certain rocket man.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sweet mother of— But Grandma rocketed out of her chair. “ A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Man, you think Wernher von Braun don’t drink down at Cape Canaveral? I bet that’s about all those rocket men do in between shooting off missiles. That and chasing women.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Each of them added to the body of rocket knowledge. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The propulsion experts at NASA’s laboratory in Cleveland took the lead on the craft’s electrical system and the retrofire rockets built into the craft itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z There was comedy in the way Milton, while still worrying about me, kept one eye on the rocketing taxi meter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had dived to one side and, too late, the driver saw the fence and rocketed on, straight into it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I did, and she went rocketing back up to the roof, saying “ Wheeeee!” all the way. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Scared by my own rocket,” admitted Dad to Mom. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z When I went to the machine shop, I expected to see the machinists hard at work on my rockets, but I was disappointed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “What would a trip to the Starlight Room be without a ride in our famous glass elevators? They go up like rockets.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z When night came, we balanced our rocket, looking wicked and sleek, on top of my mother’s rose-garden fence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We passed stands of rockets with long bamboo stems. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, “just to keep people frightened.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The other boys, I assumed, had gone home to hunker down for the day, hoping without much hope that their parents wouldn’t hear about our errant rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He walked down to the rocket, and some of the men were eating a freshly cooked breakfast under a shelter built by Cookie. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A child got in the center, bounced, and then was flipped twenty feet up in the air, like a toy rocket. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And after they built the town from my mind, they populated it with the most-loved people from all the minds of the people on the rocket! The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1959, the television and newspapers were filled with stories about American rockets roaring successfully into the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With a rocket in his saddle and wings on his sides Grog couldn’t possibly have clocked such a time, but the reporters weren’t sure of that, given what Smith had done for Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He's kind of trembly up there until he grabs hold of my hair to steady himself, and then the first really big rocket whams off, a humongous thud! Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z “I might ” “What about the very first movies? My father saw a movie when he was little that he always remembered. It had a rocket going into the eye of the man in the moon.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “I have looked at the sky. A rocket is coming to take us all home. It will be here in the early morning.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’ll take at least three rockets loaded in this manner,” he predicted, “before we get the right combination.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I doubted even rocket candy could get this dense little rocket off the ground. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The girl was extraordinarily lucky, Mariam thought, to escape with relatively minor injuries, considering the rocket had turned her house into smoking rubble. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “Let me tell you a story,” he said, and I stopped reading my rocket book. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I loaded Auk I with the black-powder/postage-stamp-glue slurry mix, inserted a pencil through the nozzle, and then left the rocket to dry under the hot-water heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We could fire those rockets only once, and everything had better be right. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Arion shot toward the glacier like a runaway rocket, barreling straight across the slush like he wanted to play chicken with the mountain of ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The thing in the middle of the hood was a long chrome rocket that pointed out over the road. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet had been correct about letting the powder cure longer: The rocket leapt off the pad with a louder-than-ever hiss and then streaked nearly out of sight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny, a flow passage and a rocket nozzle are one and the same!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We studied astronomy, aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, meteorology, guidance and navigation, and digital computers—to name just a few. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My usually less supple mind was trying to figure out how high our rockets were flying. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The output included a constantly updated time for retrofire, the moment when the capsules rockets had to be fired in order to initiate its descent back to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then I hit the throttle and the twin rocket boosters in each of the robot’s feet ignited, launching it upward, out of my stronghold and into Falco’s star-filled sky. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Oh, fleet rocket, your thunder wanders down the valleys, startling deer and mountaineer alike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We needed it to find out how high our rockets flew. But it’s unlikely we could teach ourselves calculus. We need your help for that.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Rocket fuel burns in the engine and is sent out the back of the rocket, driving the spaceship forward, just as the rush of air out of a balloon sends it flying around the room. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It hit the top of a big tree, which shivered from the impact as if to let us know it had caught our rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z War Relic rocketed to the lead, held it around the track, and flew into the homestretch all alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come over here and show us where your rocket range is,” Miss Riley said to me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, Sonny,” he gasped, catching his breath, “we win the science fair with our rockets, it’s got to help us get on down to the Cape.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d left three loaded rockets, Auks VI, VII, and VIII, to cure in the basement while we were on vacation and decided to fire all three the Saturday after we came back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Then they can build their own rockets,” I said with an arrogant snarl. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “A rocket won’t fly unless somebody lights the fuse,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z After a moment the ground disappeared in the mist, and up they went, faster and faster, so that she thought no rocket could have left the earth more swiftly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that was wrong with it was that one of the wings of the rocket was broken off. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She talked of his hobbies and talents, how he was celebrated at his funeral as one of the great rocket scientists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It rose like a rocket, creating a sensation in my crotch as though an important part of myself had been left below in the lobby. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Calvin had been mean to me his whole life but I had come to see him in a different light since he had helped me by finding my rocket stuff. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny, I just got told by the union I can’t work on your rockets no more,” Mr. Caton said on the black phone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were pony rides, sparklers, bottle rockets, croquet, horseshoes, taffy pulls, and apple bobbing. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As soon as he was clear of the Customs booth, however, he stomped a tasseled loafer down on the accelerator and the squealing Cadillac rocketed away. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “The rockets on my wing in Korea were on a short track that got them off straight.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We need a building—a blockhouse, it’s called—where we can go for protection when our rockets are launched. Could you give us some lumber to build one?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody ever launched a better rocket than you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A bottle rocket zipped through the air, over Diego’s shoulder, narrowly missing his ear, and exploded with a frantic crack. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The following weekend, our rocket rocked in the stiff, frigid wind that swept over Cape Coalwood, enough so I was afraid it might be blown over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rockets stopped, the flares died down, they put out the fires. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, the cheetah shot out from the shade with blinding speed, rocketing right at us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When we were younger, he used to take us kids places, like the national park and the beach and a playground miles away that had a huge metal rocket ship. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Quentin already had the rocket dug up and was inspecting the nozzle. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “When our rocket flies—really flies—I’ll tell him then,” I promised halfheartedly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll try to make it, thanks. There’s so much to be done. My men are waiting for me back at the rocket and--” He stopped. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z An hour later the captain climbed down out of the rocket to get some ham and eggs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, I was certain its body of knowledge concerning plane curves, angles, and polygons would help me design my rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I shot up in bed like a rocket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He dragged his heels, and pebbles rocketed across the pavement. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “We need it to learn how to build better rockets, Mr. Hartsfield,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Q, why do we need a new propellant? What’s wrong with rocket candy?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of spacecraft swooped and buzzed around him, peppering his mech with rocket fire, but their attacks also seemed to have little effect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They blanketed just about every square foot with rockets and fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When I woke it was the sound of the rocket exploding that announced the release of the bulls from the corrals at the edge of town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “The same as you, old chap! If I learn how to build a rocket, I’ll stand a better chance of getting on down at the Cape.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But if I reversed the process, and closed my left eye, all I could see was machinery—a huge pile of it, rocket and gantry and cables and pipes all jumbled together in confusion. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Either across the dead seas or out of space in a rocket on a little thread of red flame. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood up, looking, and then turned to blink back at where the rocket used to be. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He told her that they fired rockets at cars but, for some reason, left taxis alone—which explained to Laila the recent rash of people spraying their cars yellow. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I don’t need to know this stuff. I need to know how a rocket works.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The pod sat in its clamp, looking very fragile to be rocketing about on magma streams. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Albert calmly explains the energy required to lift the rocket. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He wore a three-piece wool suit and fiddled with a small rocket. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z An explosion goes off right above a monument near us, rocketing us all apart. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “If you’d got yourself a date for tonight, you could impress the hell out of her about this rocket. She wouldn’t be able to get out of her panties fast enough!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "At least not to me. My folks are rocket scientists. This is pretty much as normal as it gets in this house." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Besides the fact we didn’t know how to build a rocket, I told him my main objection. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Say that there were people in the year 1905 who hated war and got together with some scientists in secret and built a rocket and came out here to Mars ” “No, no, Hinkston.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The air was full of cooking odors when the rocket landed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “But what will we make our rocket out of? I can get stuff if you tell me what we need.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I had always been interested in rockets and space. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent’s body was as thick as a booster rocket, glinting with coppery scales. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I suppose I should have been glad his aim wasn’t as good with a bottle rocket as it was with toast. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “I want you to figure out how he can launch his rockets without everybody getting upset about it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I released the tide and jumped, rocketing straight over Ares on a wave. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Like bolts of lightning, they rocket into the day. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered when I had shown her my rocket book and she had said how much she, too, wanted to learn calculus. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They’re having a fine time swarming in the slick, darting around like small, speckled rockets. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z I got my rocket book and tucked it under my belt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The day was very hot when they reached the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z People surged from the road across the slack, following the other boys as they raced after our last, great rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Once he’d left, we got to explore the midway on our own, the air rushing past us as we rocketed down a giant yellow slide on burlap sacks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The first rocket emitted a boil of nasty, stinking, yellowish smoke and then fell over, the glue on its fins melted. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Specific impulse was, my book said, the thrust a rocket produced when it burned a pound of fuel in one second. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I think the safest place for you is Mars. Take a rocket and get going....Nuts to you!” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Then you should be folding what we rocket scientists call a glider.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Above me the rockets and parachute-lights shoot up and float down again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But why all the food, more than enough to last them years and years, left hidden back there near the rocket? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The “rockets’ red glare” high part explodes in my ears, and my shoulders tense at “bombs bursting in air.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z If she hadn’t been buckled into her booster seat I think she would have rocketed clear across the car. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Attempting tricks she knew she couldn't do, rocketing to the ground over and over again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Go on and build your rocket. But be careful, hear?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Boy, is my date boring. I don’t even know where he is. Why is a tough little rocket boy going stag to the formal? Do you wanta dance?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z What I didn’t know was that O’Dell and Sherman, who had taken on the job of setting our rockets up on the pad, had also noted the wind’s effect on flight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They were still quite capable of wiping the floor up with me, so I kept my distance and recommended that the other rocket boys not tease them either. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were always so many things to do and to remember in rocket design and construction that I had been forced to get organized in my mind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right. Nothing. Nothing at all any more. No more Minneapolis, no more rockets, no more Earth.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not only a good runner, but had a great nose for burnt rocket candy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I was down in the first cove by the valley when they fired the rockets,” said Frank. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We had a year to pay off the thirty-seven dollars, and though I had no idea how we would get the money, at least we were still building rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Jolts and jabs of pain rocketed around inside me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then the boat’s nose turned toward the tunnel and we rocketed through into the darkness. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If that man can produce little blue fire women and that woman there melt into a pillar, how natural if normal Martians think we produce our rocket ship with our minds.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sonny asked us if he could build a rocket, Homer,” she replied, as if she were amazed he had not perceived the perfectly obvious. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z With trig under our belt, all we would need to do was build some instruments to measure angles and we would be able to calculate how high our rockets flew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw the men walking out to the rocket. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I see the stars, I see the rockets, and for a moment have the impression that I have fallen asleep at a garden fête. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z My first rocket had caused me to be harassed on the school bus, at school, and now in my own room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Company property is for company business, not for launching rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The night was cold and clear—all the better, we thought, for us to track our rocket as it streaked across the dark, starry sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, fireworks began going off—rockets, scattering fiery balls in the sky. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The slow hiss of the rocket as it sped into the air, the burst of the explosion, the stream of little emerald stars. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “The children were moved from here to Karteh-Seh after the rockets hit the old orphanage. Which is like saving someone from the lion’s cage and throwing them in the tiger’s.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Too sweet, even though on any day of the week, Genie could take down three or four rocket pops with no problem. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “No, you can’t have this! It’s evidence. Your rocket started a forest fire. It burned the top off Davy Mountain and almost got to the houses on Highway 52.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As the Great Six filed by, they gave us rocket boys stern looks. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z His rifle changed into a sword and then a rocket launcher. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “When the rocket took off, the propellant was so loose it just fell inward. Too much of it burned at once.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To get even to the nearest star, you would need an enormous amount of fuel to jettison out the back of the rocket—a tremendous waste. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We met O’Dell at the Frog Level crossroads, and he squeezed into the back in between rockets, careful not to bend the fragile fins. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He stared down at the sparking, sputtering arsenal, yelled and belly-flopped to the carpet as rockets whizzed out of the elevator, inches above his head. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z And a mind movie plays in my head of a silver rocket with blue stripes flying to the moon with Keisha, Albert, and me strapped in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Readying the rockets for launch was hot work, and refreshments were sent over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z At the supper table that night, I put down my fork and announced that I was going to build a rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought our rockets were to help us get jobs someday with Dr. von Braun, but Quentin was saying they were for something much more immediate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When Mom and Dad leave, Malia stares up at me with wide eyes, her butterfly rocket frozen in midair. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then one morning rockets slammed into the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Jake asked breathlessly, as excited as if he were a rocket boy himself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The Scout rocket had been an important part of laying the groundwork for the manned spaceflight efforts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He talked about our exhibit, saying it contained the most sophisticated rockets he’d seen this side of Cape Canaveral. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When I was little, I thought people were sending up rockets and cherry bombs because of me—hurray, Lily was born! The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll believe it when I see them ten thousand rockets arrive with the one hundred thousand Mexicans and Chinese on them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy was a good runner, which, considering the range we hoped to attain, I thought we might need to help us find our rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Even with my own private rocket ship, I could never fly fast enough to pull ahead of all the other stars at Chumley Prep. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I heard a growl so loud I thought one of the rocket engines was starting up. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I saw the face of a kid rocket back as I punched him in the nose, heard a roar of approval from a circle of boys formed around us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Just a roomful of men sitting at control panels, crowds of people waiting for something to happen, and a tall space rocket with a lot of white smoke surrounding it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z There, by the light of the rocket I see something move in the wire, then it stiffens and I lie still. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The jet was streaking across the sky, and then we saw a rocket go up. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To prepare Pollard for a rocket start, Smith sent him out for races on every front-running sprinter in the Howard barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rocket ship. We came in it. Over there!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you tell me to look? The rocket isn’t there.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The smudge pots were hellish machines, belching foul-smelling smoke and shooting a dangerous wild flame out the top, like upside-down rockets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In August 1955, Russian rocket scientists announced that they would soon be able to send a satellite into space. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot more to engineering than rockets,” he said gruffly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It became a rocket ship, a dizzy runaway. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The next weekend, Mr. Bykovski met with me and Sherman and O’Dell at the tipple machine shop to teach us the fundamentals of welding and cutting steel so that we could build our own rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As Ronan laughs, his pole is yanked hard—a great white shark comes out of the water like a rocket off a launchpad. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The ball of smoke hung in the sky like a shrapnel burst, and as I watched, another rocket came up to it, trickling smoke in the bright sunlight. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Alex took out after Radar, but the dog shot away like a rocket. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I could see nurses and paramedics diving out of the way as the big bus rocketed up the drive to Emergency. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The word had spread after our last launch that our big new rockets were potentially dangerous to spectators. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I rode for about ten minutes, shooting through the tunnels underground, the tracks screeching and knocking like a rocket about to take off. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But the rockets were American and the men were American and it stayed that way, while Europe and Asia and South America and Australia and the islands watched the Roman candles leave them behind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “The rocket, of course. I’m getting jumpy. The rocket.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We decided to test two of our best mixtures inside devices we hoped resembled rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I guess the dead didn’t have to worry about little hazards like being speared by stalactites the size of booster rockets. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z "I figured out our clues. Ammonium nitrate. It's used in fertilizers, explosives, and rocket propellants." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman behind the ticket counter says the Germans carry fog pills and wear rocket belts; their uniforms, she whispers, are made of a special cloth stronger than steel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And I was sweating and my feet were vibrating like rockets just before takeoff. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don't go out there,” Quentin told me even as I walked outside the blockhouse and studied the rocket with binoculars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This sweet, funny, sometimes annoying, sometimes brilliant, naive child of mine...This child who is now an adult and about to launch, like a rocket blazing in beauty through the night sky to worlds unknown. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This was the first crew to ride the gigantic Saturn V rocket, and I wasn’t sure how safe a ride it would be. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z O’Dell’s father thought it was pretty amazing the rockets had flown at all and, after all, no harm had been done. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The Chinese delegation was suffering from rocket lag and wouldn’t show up for another hour. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Late strollers were still out: a policeman, a night watchman, a rocket pilot, several lonely men coming home from some nocturnal rendezvous, four men and women issuing from a bar, laughing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z While I listened to the beeping, I had this mental image of Russian high-school kids lifting the Sputnik and putting it in place on top of a big, sleek rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z First, fool Lustig, then Hinkston, then gather a crowd; and all the men in the rocket, seeing mothers, aunts, uncles, sweethearts, dead ten, twenty years ago, naturally, disregarding orders, rush out and abandon ship. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The flare in my chest reignited and spread like a rocket launch through my body, heating me from my scalp down to the tips of my toes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z When Otto and Sheed touched her too, she rocketed into the air, twisting into a somersault that propelled her clean over the boys’ heads. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The rocket might be gone before the tapes make it through the entire list. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The crowd backed away and ahhed as the rocket disappeared at the top of a tremendous column of white, boiling smoke. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The FBI and Army Intelligence never reported picking up any rumors about electric rockets,” Robert said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I hurried every day after school to my desk to pore over my rocket book. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The rocket reclined on the little sunny hill and didn’t vanish. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see the way our rocket flew? So what if it didn’t go straight? We’re doing good here!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then, if he agreed—he often didn’t—he’d take off like a rocket. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While we, football boys and rocket boys, all froze in place, Tag leisurely got out and pushed his constable’s cap to the back of his head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From the moment I pressed the firing button the following weekend, I knew it was our best rocket yet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “NASA held back on a rocket launch to save a nest of egrets,” said Leon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In 1957, when I was fourteen years old and first began to build my rockets, there were nearly two thousand people living in Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He was congratulating me on the success with my rockets, suggesting that I continue my education and perhaps I might one day find a job in the space business! October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Alvarez fired his rockets as he sped past the target, then began banking to come around again. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Captain Wilder called to the rocket, “Abandon ship!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Not bad for a little rocket not given time to cure. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I began to hear about one particular rocket scientist named Dr. Wernher von Braun. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z By this time, the rocket had used all its fuel, so we separated from it and floated to the moon in the weightlessness of space. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew less than nothing about rockets too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they’re stupid—directly or indirectly—sooner or later they start to believe it. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z My father had clearly, in no uncertain terms, told me to stop building rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z This steaming ice somehow made the rocket seem alive. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocket leaned over, puffed a big cloud of smoke, and sped off into the sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some people saw the rocket sticking out of the window, and shouts of encouragement rang out. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We scheduled a rocket launch on the same day as the prom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z |
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