moon-shot

Hideki Matsui, battling balky knees and a reluctant transition from outfielder-to-designated hitter, turned on a Jim Johnson fastball and launched a walk-off moon-shot into the right-field seats.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

His wife was out there undoing the buttons slowly to get to the wound, small and round, produced by a Teflon-coated bullet (the papers said) that eased neatly into his chest and right out, the wonders of moon-shot technology going a step further than nonstick pans (my father muttered).

david means | the woodcutter « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

Doubles down the foul lines, hard hit drives off of the Green Monster, and moon-shot blasts onto Lansdowne Street, you would have thought no place in Kenmore Square was safe.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

Doubles down the foul lines, hard hit drives off of the Green Monster, and moon-shot blasts onto Lansdowne Street, you would have thought no place in Kenmore Square was safe.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

Hideki Matsui, battling balky knees and a reluctant transition from outfielder-to-designated hitter, turned on a Jim Johnson fastball and launched a walk-off moon-shot into the right-field seats.

One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

In his New York Times article Ben Stein said we had to have a moon-shot scale drive to drill everywhere and turn coal into oil into gasoline.

Treehugger vs. Ben Stein « Skid Roche 2008

In his New York Times article Ben Stein said we had to have a moon-shot scale drive to drill everywhere and turn coal into oil into gasoline.

Treehugger vs. Ben Stein « Skid Roche 2008

From the beginning down there in the Gulf of Mexico, nobody in an American generation raised on moon-shot success and Star Wars movies seemed to get it.

Craig Medred: Gulf Oil Spill: The Best and the Worst of America 2010

Four friends re-stage a 60's moon-shot in a Farnborough semi.

Nov. 13th, 2008 - Issue 0.009 z0mbieastronaut 2008

First, the atomic bomb and moon-shot challenges were "cost-no-object" propositions issued by one "command-and-control" customer (the Feds), seeking to overcome fundamental scientific and engineering unknowns, within a small separable slice of the technical world operating largely outside the global economy.

Richard Stuebi: An Apollo Program for Alternative Energy Is Not the Answer 2008