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Shepard

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Shep·ard  (shprd), Alan Bartlett, Jr. 1923-1998.
American astronaut who on a 15-minute flight on May 5, 1961, became the first American in space. He also commanded the Apollo 14 mission to the moon (1971).
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Noun1.Shepard - United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
Sam Shepard
2.Shepard - astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Alan Shepard
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The merchants -- Pingree,Phillips, Shepard, Upton, Kimball, Bertram, Hunt -- these and many other names, which had such classic familiarity for my ear six months ago, -- these men of traffic, who seemed to occupy so important a position in the world -- how little time has it required to disconnect me from them all, not merely in act, but recollection It is with an effort that I recall the figures and appellations of these few.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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