Word: contentively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some U.S. scientists believe that the cosmo nauts probably defecated into a slight vacuum, after which the feces were passed into a con tainer and frozen. Under this system the liquid content can be evaporated, purified, and passed back into the cabin as clean water vapor. The dried residue might then be stored in plastic bags. A similar condensation process could be used to dispose of urine. - A Danish Communist paper speculated that the craft weighed &l/2 tons each, compared with the five tons of Vostok...
...many people know this side of the man. He is perhaps most content while walking through a park-or climbing to the top of Old Rag, his favorite mountain in the Blue Ridge chain. Up there he may be alone-as he often is-but in a political and philosophical sense, he will be master of all he surveys. "I love these mountains," says Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd. "I like to look out over the ridges and valleys and watch the changing shadows...
...groping in the dark, and sentences were being meted out that were indiscriminate and without basis and just constantly horrifying to one who really cared deeply about what was going on," said Cooper. At another point he declared: "I tried to talk myself into the philosophy that I should content myself with the knowledge that I was doing everything that I could. I could not bring myself to that approach. Ever since I have been ten years of age I have been on my own, and every undertaking I have tried to do with everything that...
World War II turned San Diego from a city of 289,348, sleepily content to live off its famed naval base, into one of the nation's major aircraft producers. The boom grew louder after the war, with the demand for new planes for the burgeoning airlines and the rapid evolution of new Air Force fighters and bombers. By 1950 the population was up to 556,808; by 1960 it had soared to 1,033,011, and San Diego was proudly-and rightfully-calling itself the fastest-growing major city...
...fields." In their quest to extend history, archaeologists are using proton magnetometers to search for the ancient Greek city of Sybaris. They have used aerial photography to locate Etruscan tombs and to find a lost Andean road that was once part of a pre-Inca civilization. By analyzing the content of bone, they have shown Piltdown man for what he was-a forgery that fooled scientists for 41 years...