Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duty in Hawaii National Park early Election Day, Vulcanologist Gordon MacDonald noticed telltale marks on the seismograph. After some quick calculations, he phoned Hilo police about a severe and distant earthquake. Seismic sea waves, he figured, might hit the Hawaiian Islands in about three hours...
...Just Stroll." Half an hour later, on the telescreen, came the Republicans' most novel message over the new medium: an hour-long program, called "Crusade in America." From Eisenhower and Nixon seated together informally in Boston, it flashed across the country, reaching party voices as distant as California's Governor Earl Warren, picking up issues of the campaign (e.g., a cinema snatch of Theron Lamar Caudle, of mink coat fame, testifying before congressional investigators), returning to Ike at midnight for a last brief appeal...
Another possible effect of the Zwicky discovery may be to change astronomers' ideas about distances in space. If it turns out that the new-found bridges wind thickly among the nearer galaxies, they must dim the light from galaxies behind them, making them appear more distant than they...
...freshly painted and had that indefinable look a house wears when its people are not in want. It was Eisenhower's job to show what was beneath this prosperity, and beyond it. He had to show that the larder was not so full as it seemed, and that distant places like Korea or Indo-China were threatening the safety of the safest, newest farmhouse roof. He kept hammering away at high taxes, inflation, high prices, the explosive uncertainties and frustrating deadlock of the Korean...
...Hartog's The Distant Shore...