Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high in space as in any pulp magazine: "There was a crooning, dangerous, hypnotic quality to the voice--and yet it was warm and sweet, like mrfii-honey flowing over the lichen rocks of Phobos. Mac Marty felt his pulse quicken." There are also adverse affects of mating on distant planets, but only villains are susceptible. "Lucia's baby was born. The baby came at night. It did not live more than a few hours. But it shone in the dark...
...advantages of closeness are obvious--restaurants, groceries, a laundry are all within a block. The Yard is one long block distant, and the Square...
...nature that can multiply only within living cells of a higher order-and is too small to be seen by any pre-electronic microscope. Unlike most other disease-causing microbes, this virus does its damage only by attacking the central nervous system,* paralyzing nerve centers and pathways that control distant muscles. Nerves governing the legs, arms and breathing are particularly susceptible. In the severest and commonly fatal bulbar cases (involving the bulb at the base of the brain), speech and swallowing are affected as well as central breathing control...
...these needed reforms . . ." said he, "the Chinese people will gladly back the Nationalist government. If he does not do so, not only our hope of ever recovering the mainland of China is lost, but he may find himself even unable to defend effectively Formosa in the not too distant future...
...science-fiction writers, of course, have long since peopled Mars with subtle civilizations, beautiful women with golden eyes, and half-invisible ships sailing on red-sand seas. Some writers, bored with Mars, have gone on to other planets or even to distant galaxies billions of light-years away, where four-dimensional people (of three or more sexes) think five-dimensional thoughts and are made of inverted matter...