Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buffoon or not, Shima has a lot to explain. On Oct. 25, 1944, the second day of the historic sea fight, Shima steamed toward Surigao Strait, south of Leyte Gulf, with two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and four destroyers, still distant from the main battle. He hoped to reach Leyte Gulf in time to harass U.S. landing forces there, but his entire contribution to the battle, as Historian Morison observes, was to ram his flagship into a crippled heavy cruiser of another Japanese force, after firing 16 torpedoes at two islands he mistook for U.S. ships...
...diplomatic mission. Said Gromyko: West Berlin is a threat to the peace, and if the West should try to force its way through a Berlin blockade, "the flames of war would inevitably spread to the American continent, for today's military techniques have virtually eliminated the difference between distant theaters of war and those close at hand...
About the same time, a mysterious, repellent force-a kind of anti-gravity that works only when objects are separated by very great distances-took hold of the galaxies and made them fly away from one another. This is what they are doing still. The most distant ones that can be seen with the 200-in. Palomar Mountain telescope are moving away from the earth at 37,000 miles per second or about one-fifth the speed of light...
...decision will be made by taking a galaxy census in a large chunk of space so distant that the galaxies in it are seen on earth as they were 5 or 6 billion years ago. If the galaxies prove to be crowded closer together than they are in the section of space near the earth, the primeval atom will have won the contest-since, according to the cosmic evolutionary theory, the universe was much smaller 6 billion years ago and its galaxies were therefore closer together...
...Poteet has been banished from Steve Canyon in part because of a distant tie to Lolita, many a reader who mixes some books with his comic strips is convinced that a teen-ager now raising temperatures in Dick Tracy (416 papers) is closely related, indeed, to the nimble nymphet. Slinky and scheming beyond her years, Popsie is fond of putting down her lollypop and bussing the cheek of Headache, a slot-machine maker who is not above bussing back. Cries Headache: "Owoo! That lollypop!" The very suggestion that Popsie and Lolita and Headache and Humbert are parallels draws howls...