Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amidst the tumult and the shouting moved "Honest Ave," like a well-dressed icicle, thin and sharp and distant. In his Mercury he drove from his Manhattan town house to the sprawling, old Executive Mansion in Albany, emerging for a dinner attended by a distinguished gathering of Democrats. Among the guests: Margaret Truman, former Air Secretary Thomas Finletter, two of President Roosevelt's old intimates and speechwriters, ex-Judge Samuel Rosenman and Playwright Robert Sherwood, and William Blair, aide to and ambassador from Adlai Stevenson...
After the death of Hubble in 1953, his partner, M. L. Humason, kept observing more distant galaxies. In all their spectra he found the "red shift,"- which shows that they are all moving away from the earth and from one another. The most distant ones observed are apparently rushing away at 134 million miles an hour, about one-fifth of the speed of light. Unless some new theory can account for the red shift, cosmologists will have to get along with the expanding universe...
Ferrets & Dew. Soviet ferret raids have already felt out North America's defenses. U.S. jets on radar alert, scrambling from bases in Alaska and elsewhere, have repeatedly spotted distant Red reconnaissance planes. The Russians' mission: to try out the radar screen, draw out interceptors, chart and time defense reactions...
Jointly, Canada and the U.S. decided this fall to go ahead with a Distant Early Warning ("Dew") radar line along the continent's Arctic edge, some 1,800 miles north of Chicago, far enough away to give the U.S. three hours' warning. But the mid-Canada line will not be ready for months; the Dew line will not be ready for years...
...Pilar boats 15 beauties. Excited as a boy, Hemingway overlooks a promise to quit early and take a late-afternoon nap. Not until almost dusk does the boat put in to harbor. The sun seems to be setting only a few yards off a corner of Havana, four miles distant, and Hemingway savors it as if it were his first sunset-or his last. "Look!" he exclaims...