Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians have messed up their life on earth, their treatment of their fellowmen has shut them out of heaven-so there is no place for them to go but outer space...
...claim also held by the Air Force, which insists its Xi; missiles have successfully rocketed "reentry bodies" back to earth from hundreds of miles...
Back in office as lord mayor, beefy Max Brauer, 70, was quick to point out that the Hamburg Socialists had succeeded where the national party had failed, because of his moderate, down-to-earth and pro-Western brand of Socialism. "The Social Democrats in Hamburg," he said, "have shed the outworn dogma about being a party solely of workers ... The most important task we have is to set the example for a great people's party drawn from all classes . . . and to shape these new times...
...burn out sooner. Sputnik II has not been aloft long enough to permit accurate predictions, but since it is heavy and not very big, it has low drag in proportion to its weight. Also it orbits higher in thinner air. So the Russians think it will circle the earth considerably longer than Sputnik...
...rather long half life, 291 days, and since it is absorbed by living organisms, the Navy's safety men have added it to their list of dangerous fallout isotopes. They are now looking for plants and animals that may pick it up as it floats around the earth, and concentrate it in their tissues. They already know one plant, tea. that is avid for manganese and may concentrate the radioactive kind...