Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lost City meteorite is very ordinary as meteorites go, just an oblong chunk of stone and metal with a black crust...
...Fifty million motorists simultaneously applying their brakes from a speed of 60 m.p.h. would impart 50 times as much energy to the earth's crust as David Stone's jumping Chinese. Careful coordination could focus the energy at any point on earth. Unfortunately, the first Chinese jump would destroy our highways and prevent a retaliatory attack. Therefore a preemptive strike should be made at once...
...cold, like a dead body in its winding sheet of snow. The water mill hangs stiff with icicles. The rivers wait, as if struck by some icy thought. A woman with fagots on her head hurries across a bridge (see detail, page 53). Upon the ice, the polished green crust of earth's secret blood, some skate, others spin tops, and still others play at curling, with faint cries...
...stoutly resisted the conclusion that some time in the remote past, the earth's land masses began splitting up and drifting apart-a theory known as "continental drift." Sheer nonsense, they insisted. No known forces could possibly have propelled huge continents across the earth's dense, basaltic crust...