Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perfect natural prison, too small (three square miles) to permit unnoticed escape, too far from the nearest land (35 miles) to swim, Ustica is believed to have begun its penal history in the 7th century B.C., when mutinous Carthaginian soldiers were exiled there and starved until they ate each other. After the Carthaginians came Greek refugees and Phoenician exiles-and so on down the centuries. Mussolini banished thousands of political opponents to Ustica, often as many as 1,500 at a time; many were homosexuals who swished through the city streets in lipstick and silk pajamas, performed dances by night...
...Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years. "Last fall they cleared out seven acres of my kale and 40 tons of swede [a kind of turnip grown for cattle fodder]." In Burgh Castle, after trapping 460 of the same varments that ate Banham's kale, Farmer John Berry was near despair: "If they carry on the way they do," said he, "they'll be master of the land in three years...
...very first orbit, Titov took over the manual controls of the Vostok II, checked out the systems designed to let him steady his capsule as it curved along its predetermined arc in space. On the third orbit, Titov ate a three-course lunch, squeezed out of tubes like toothpaste. On the seventh orbit, after 9¼ hours in the air, Titov passed over Moscow, radioed: "I beg to wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours...
While Titov ate and slept, whirling on an ellipse that ranged from 111 miles to 158 miles above the earth, Premier Khrushchev promoted the orbiting cosmonaut from captain to major, also promoted him from candidate to full Communist Party member. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin cut short a trip to Canada, flew back to Moscow to be on hand to greet Titov. Western scientists and technicians went about the business of tracking Titov's progress with understandable lack of enthusiasm. "It makes me sick to my stomach," growled one U.S. Air Force officer...
...Weightlessness," he explained with the assurance of a man who knows, "does not interfere with man's capacity for work," though at first he felt as if he were "flying legs up." He had suffered an uneasy sensation in his inner ear, he said, and though he ate his first two meals on schedule, his appetite was not normal. There was also a faint sense of psychological unease. "I knew that there was something in the nature of homesickness called nostalgia," he said, ''but up there, I found there is also a homesickness for the earth...