Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Live. Supernovae are the most violent of a group of three exploding stars whose two other members -novae and dwarf novae-periodically flare up for a short time and then return to their original state. By contrast, a supernova is never the same again...
Last month Charles de Gaulle imperiously decreed that he wants all forces belonging to his 14 NATO partners removed from French soil by next April 1. He meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
...Common Market. Javits envisaged a tariff-free trading zone stretching from Tierra del Fuego to the Rio Grande and embracing a population of 220 million with an annual gross national product of $78 billion. He hoped that the U.S. and Canada would ultimately join, forming a market that would dwarf the European Economic Community...
...others are born to fill the space between, so that the words "eternity" and "infinity" maintain their literal meaning in an unending past and future? Somewhere out in the vast reaches of space and time, there are sources of energy as yet unimagined by man-unbridled physical reactions that dwarf any conceivable nuclear explosion...
...woman cast, the show is funnier than its material, which takes its style from the sappy smile of Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine's trademark moron. The actors do versatile impersonations of the specialized zany-the hi-fi nut, the folksong nut, the technician nut whose means totally dwarf his ends. One of the funniest skits in the show features a TV sportscaster team that, with superb professional aplomb, misses the kickoff, the touchdown play, and even the score of a championship game, while cutting to "our man on the field," interviewing the coach, and breathlessly spieling, World Almanac...