171: He Really Stuck With It
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
4.9 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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And that was good news for the naked burglar.
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| 0:00.0 | So, will it be skiing? |
| 0:03.0 | Or Christmas markets on a city break? |
| 0:06.0 | Skiing? Or a city break? |
| 0:09.0 | Some problems are good problems to have. |
| 0:12.0 | Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way |
| 0:17.0 | and package holidays from £159 per person. |
| 0:21.0 | Get the king at EasyJet.com. |
| 0:24.0 | Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights, |
| 0:28.0 | restrictions and season C's apply. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:37.0 | On a warm summer evening in San Diego, California, way back in 1953, |
| 0:42.0 | Norman Lawson wrestled to find a new solution for an old problem, |
| 0:46.0 | a problem that had plagued the United States Navy for years. |
| 0:50.0 | A loyal employee of the Rocket Chemical Company, |
| 0:54.0 | Norman labored after hours in a lab he built above his garage, |
| 0:59.0 | surrounded by concoctions and mixtures that bubbled and fizzled |
| 1:04.0 | as his dinner grew cold once again. |
| 1:07.0 | It had been like this for the last several months. |
| 1:10.0 | Norman locked away in his lab as his family slowly began to wonder |
| 1:14.0 | if he would ever emerge for something more than cold leftovers. |
| 1:18.0 | So far, 11 experiments had been conducted, |
| 1:21.0 | but all had come up short. |
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