Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once the spacecraft was inserted into lunar orbit, the taciturn threesome began to perk up. Gazing at the bleak moonscape, Scott compared it to a great desert. "This is absolutely mind-boggling," he said. The scenery was apparently even more mind-boggling after the spacecraft descended to a lower orbit of only ten by 67 miles. Crossing over the towering Apennines, Scott said: "Why, it's just unreal ... the mountains jut out of the 'ocean.' They appear smooth and rounded. There aren't any jagged peaks that...
...than 100 busts. One youth died in a hospital tent from a drug overdose. Meanwhile, dazed with blistering heat, and stultifying humidity, the estimated 50,000 youths who gathered to see Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian were also choked by dust. For the Woodstock Nation, McCrea was a bleak experience of mud, sweat and tears...
...will and the capability to continue." The bleak prognosis, coupled with a request for a 206,756-troop increase, came at a time when military and civilian leaders within the Johnson Administration were characterizing Tet as an allied victory that had left the Viet Cong crippled and ineffective...
...ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak Sinai range. But the driver's yet was indicative. Small red surveyor's pennants are everywhere along the road...
...that is only the bleak side. Many people agree with Doug Ravenel, a Brandeis graduate student, who simply says that joining Ananda Marga has "changed my life and made me happier than I ever thought I could be." It has taken struggle, to be sure, but many earlier difficulties have been overcome. From the viewpoint of Ananda Marga, life is struggle, and to avoid struggle is like giving up and dying...