Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dime-store magnifying glass given to him by a friend, Whitaker began studying photographs of roughly the same area taken from above the moon by Lunar Orbiter 3. The glass proved a valuable gift. Within 20 hours after Surveyor's landing, Whitaker located a crater with the distinctive boulder and crater pattern. Surveyor, he confidently told NASA flight planners, was on the east side of that crater. With equal confidence- based on the navigation lessons learned from the flight of Apollo 11-NASA made plans for a precision landing that would place the lunar module within walking distance...
...memorial park was given by Walter Wilson, co-chairman of the memorial park committee. And then those who knew DuBois-Ossie Davis and Horace Mann Bond and Frederick Lord (who colonized DuBois at his funeral in Africa)-spoke of the man on top of the flat gray boulder that will hold the memorial plaque...
...Tangwena had, in fact, precious little to begin with-except their land. Long before the white man came, they lived in the remote hills of Eastern Rhodesia. The boulder-strewn hillside land was good only for sparse crops of maize and yams. In 1930, the colonial government designated the Tangwena hills as "European land," but few settlers were interested. One syndicate, however, set up the Gaeresi Ranch in the area, and the Tangwena's 50 square miles was included within it. Still the land was little used...
...monoliths of Easter Island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile in the Pacific, have held an abiding fascination for generations of archaeologists. Maziere has new theories about the men who produced them and why, though the impact of his research is somewhat blunted by the fact that boulder-size chunks were lifted from previous work by an obscure Capuchin priest named Father Sebastian Englert...
...assault on fire-support base "West," an isolated U.S. post on a 1,000-ft. ridgeline overlooking the Song Chang valley. Reconnaissance probes determined that North Vietnamese soldiers, often disguised in South Vietnamese uniforms, were well-entrenched around the base, occupying elaborate bunkers emplaced in rice terraces and on boulder-strewn hills...