Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground teams strategically located in Russia and by airplane air sampling when necessary. Coupled with this limitation on air and water tests was an invitation to Russia to join the U.S. in renewed underground tests. Object: to determine whether new detection refinements, e.g., seismographic instruments sunk deep into the earth, are effective enough to trust...
...body can stand twice as much Strontium 90 as they previously thought possible, it is nice to know that someone is still thinking about ending nuclear bomb tests. President Eisenhower's note to Khrushchev this week asking for a stoppage of tests in the atmophere thirty miles above the earth--permitting underground tests until a satisfactory inspection system can be set up--suggests that the Administration is more than casually interested in the success of talks on this subject...
...their first mission in Japan.* The Buddhists had just been in the same hall to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high point of the meeting was the Communion service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Francis Fisher...
...baffled reader may well ask, in Desmond's own words: "God damn it all to Hell, what on earth [is] going on?" Yet he will be persuaded by Author Cusack's virtuosity with word and image that the confusion has its own logic...
...seems actual enough, with slogans penciled "by obscenely-minded orangemen": "To Hell with Hitler. Down with Dublin. Up Kerry all the Time." Yet it is not quite a train either; it is "suspended between the north and the south like a star in the sky and not touching this earth: like a homing pigeon with no home, twisting and twirling, like a peregrine...