| Term | Definition |
|---|
| bra | BCMA distracted from scientific work by unlatching this |
| Valentine | girl who could "stop all masculine traffic in the hall" |
| football suspension | result of lawsuit from the football fathers |
| rocket launch publicity | notices posted at the Big Store |
| new harder curriculum | the impact of Sputnik at Big Creek High School |
| roofing materials | mountain dirt works a trade for this |
| Myrtle Beach | two weeks vacation for the Hickam family |
| telephones | this was stolen from the mule barn |
| football players | who tears down the shed at Cape Coalwood |
| Sunday AM trip with Dad | first time in the mine |
| Dorothy | falls asleep on the bus with Sonny |
| Dorothy | refuses Sonny's invitation to be his date at the formal dance |
| Von Braun's signed picture | Christmas present |
| Jake's boarding house | The Club House |
| Reverend Lanier's Sermon | influenced by the Great Six |
| Little Richard | tells Sonny, "The Word is the Word But the Number is God's too. Got to be." |
| Trigonometry | math needed to figure heights of rockets |
| propellant inspired by Miss Riley's chemistry class | rocket candy |
| Jake | has a way with the ladies |
| Mr. Bykovski | Jewish man in Coalwood |
| telescope | Jake's surprise on the top of the Club House |
| a | public appeal to get Cape Coalwood |
| a | Jake's friend, Basil Oglethorpe |
| a | Sonny's subject in school |
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