Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remote-control arm and performed solar-power experiments with a 102-ft.-high solar sail. She also provided one of the most memorable images in space- program history when television cameras aboard Discovery captured her--in polo shirt and shorts--concentrating on her tasks while her long, curly dark brown locks wafted above her head in zero gravity...
...rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching a $75 million communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay and lightening the mood by wearing a black beret and dark glasses and holding a movie clapper board. His name badge read CECIL B. MCNAIR...
...disliked the word's pseudospiritual aura. Those black strokes were the residue of a tough, specific place, one to which David Smith's sculpture also appealed: a world of trestles and girders, piers and railbeds and X braces, of sooty industrial silhouettes and locomotives highballing through the lonesome American dark...
...government plays on the widespread ignorance of sex by issuing dark warnings about many sexual practices. A 1984 government book for newlyweds on health says that promiscuity brings brief pleasure but also a loss of will, a generally low character and possibly neurasthenia. Even the wedding night has its perils. The book warns that husbands who do not know the location of the female genitals can cause severe damage. "Though such cases are rare," the book says, "they are worth noting...
...Voyager swung behind Uranus, it bounced radio waves off the rings and discovered that they are quite different from those of Saturn, which contain an abundance of fine particles. The Uranian rings are made largely of dark "boulders," most of them more than a yard wide, that circle the planet once every eight hours. Many scientists believe they may be the remnants of a large moon that shattered in an ancient cataclysm...