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When something caused Stapp to be subjected to more g's than orginally anticipated, Murphy is reported to have said, "What can go wrong, will!"

More Ares Woes - NASA Watch 2009

The president was dropping his g's, always a terrible sign, a kind of bowing that assumes he speaks from a great height.

The President's Island Retreat Peggy Noonan 2011

I learned to play the game; tell a woman her loopy y's, g's and p's meant she would marry a poor man, and suddenly she screams that your fees are too high!

Don Miguel Quesadilla, Disgraced Notary Public Con Chapman 2011

A secretary slash office manager who puts up with 10 high skill, high ego snots for three years is entitled to a couple hundred g's when they all become millionaires.

Executive Compensation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I learned to play the game; tell a woman her loopy y's, g's and p's meant she would marry a poor man, and suddenly she screams that your fees are too high!

Don Miguel Quesadilla, Disgraced Notary Public Con Chapman 2011

LEO Access on a man rated system (lower g's) with crew escape with LEO/ISS cargo supply supplemented by Private sector.

Obama Budget Preview: Moon Is Still In The Plan - NASA Watch 2009

Your eyelids are peeled back, lashes flap, hurting from the force of g's.

Dreaming the dream of the wall James Lloyd Davis 2011

Known as Gigi pronounced with hard g's, he was a boy of many talents and a compulsion he could never be rid of and that eventually destroyed him.

The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011

I thought about 12 g's was the limit for humans but realize it is also dependent upon the direction of the force on the body. tankmodeler

Hey JSC: ARC Has A Centrifuge You Can Use (update) - NASA Watch 2009

The woodpecker's head is astoundingly well-adapted for dealing with shock: After all, the birds strike trees 20 times a second, with a force of 1,200 g's, and fly away without brain damage.

Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011