Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orbit of the Russian earth satellite is being affected by some force not explained by the laws of gravity, according to a report yesterday by J. Allen Hynek, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory...
...Taking time off from his prosaic work, Amateur Archaeologist Bellante set workmen to digging inside the grotto of Tiberius (who reigned from 14 A.D. to 37 A.D.), 90-ft.-deep cavern hard by the site of Tiberius' famed Villa Spelunca (Cave Villa).* Beneath six inches of limy earth, one of Bellante's men struck a marble fragment shaped like the calf of a human leg, about twice lifesize. The diggers dug on to more than 400 pieces of polished marble...
After her trumpeted performance in Genevieve (she was generally considered funnier than the star of the show-an old car), Kay's beguiling beauty and down-to-earth sophistication pushed her to movie stardom. She was paid $100,000 for Les Girls...
...Killed Dylan? The first to shrink visibly in Caitlin's earth-mothering embrace is Dylan himself: "Dylan used to read to me in bed, in our first, know-nothing, lamb-sappy days; to be more exact, Dylan may have been a skinny, springy lambkin, but I was more like its buxom mother then, and distinctly recollect carrying him across streams under one arm; till the roles were reversed and he blew out and I caved in." Exactly why Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from...
...have been beaten to their knees and John Gait, the Moses of the moneybags, is about to lead his flock out of the mountains. " 'The road is cleared,' said Gait. 'We are going back to the world.' He raised his hand and over the desolate earth he traced in space the sign of the dollar...