Word: craterous
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...which she enters the minds of her characters, she reveals in their small-heartedness and small-mindedness, the disease of mental and spiritual sin. In "The Geranium" and "The Last Judgment" old age is Dudley's leprosy; in "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" it is Lucynell Crater's retarded, overweight daughter; in "Everything that Rises Must Converge" it is Julian's mother's bigotry; in "The Lame Shall Enter First" it is Rufus Johnson's club foot; and in "Parker's Back" it is Parker's tattoos. These disfigured are always the prophets and voyeurs...
...largest volcano ever seen by man, Nix Olympica, which is six miles high and more than 300 miles in diameter at its base. Evidence of the fury of Martian winds can be seen in a number of pictures that show tear-shaped features to the leeward side of craters and other surface irregularities. Scientists believe that these features are wind shadows of sand that are formed behind the craters by the violent winds. One photograph shows an area with unusual swirls, and a crater-like feature that to the hard-working JPL scientists seems to have definite feminine characteristics...
During Seaborg's journey, his hosts demonstrated the surprising versatility of the Soviet nuclear program for peaceful purposes. Russian scientists, for example, used one detonation to create a reservoir in a dry riverbed to catch the torrential spring runoff; the crater walls produced by the same blast served as a restraining dam. Soviet oilmen triggered another nuclear blast to revive the oil flow from a field previously believed to have run dry. Most surprising to Seaborg was a Russian technique of subduing runaway oil-and gasfield fires by atomic explosions. On two occasions 30-kiloton bombs deep beneath...
...calls for a moon landing after a steep, 25° descent. As the astronauts swoop into the mountainous Hadley-Apennine region, the sharp slant of their approach path will give them an excellent view of the designated touchdown area, which is just west of a lunar feature called Index Crater. After that, Apollo activities for the next 67 hrs. are precisely scheduled. The plan...
...been doing all week, he started off the final round with four birdies on the first nine holes to take a seemingly insurmountable five-stroke lead. Then, on the treacherous 17th hole on the rolling moonscape of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, he ran afoul of one of the crater-like traps and took a double bogey. That left him just one stroke ahead of Formosa's surprising Liang Huan...