Word: crater
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...before they pluck. Besides, the interesting thing about the feeling of loss when a book is borrowed is that the book's quality rarely matters. So mysterious is the power of books in our lives that every loss is a serious loss, every hole in the shelf a crater...
According to estimates by the U.S. Ski Association, in 1970 a mere 1,000 skiers were attracted to cross-country, while this year the number has leaped to more than 4 million. New techniques, products and uncharted areas are developing to serve regiments of "skinny-ski" addicts. Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Sequoia and other national parks are offering winter ski touring. In 1973 the 34-mile Birkebeiner race and an accompanying 17-mile contest drew only 75 contestants. This year's outing will be the sport's Boston Marathon, attracting more than 7,000 participants...
...some of the rectangular plastic pads, designed to steady the missile until it leaves the canister, begin to fall off, as all are supposed to do. In the third picture, the missile, which reached an altitude of 325 ft., tilts back toward earth; it finally falls into a crater 140 ft. downrange. Exulted one Air Force officer: "The test did everything it was designed to do. Everything went as planned along the route." First scheduled test flight of a real missile: early...
...into a focal point of the art world and the public, performing feats of public relations with practiced deftness. He never hesitated to acquire art, often by questionable means, and enjoyed paying handsomely for his sport. His most notable exploit was the acquisition, in 1972, of the Calyx Crater, a large Greek urn of dubious origin and value, for which the museum generously paid $1 million, plus $300,000 in coins...
...moons, Voyager 2 discovered surprising contrasts between those icy little worlds. Hyperion, for example, is a small, distant moon shaped like a battered Idaho potato (or, as NASA scientists variously had it, a "hamburger patty" or a mouse-gnawed "hockey puck"). Tethys, closer in, is scarred by a huge crater more than a third as wide as the satellite's own 670-mile diameter, and by a canyon that extends at least two-thirds of the way around it. Apparently the moon was struck by a huge object and badly cracked, but the pieces froze together again like chunks...