Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...census some 900,000 Brazilians declared themselves spiritists, but best estimates are that about 10 million of Brazil's 61 million population now indulge in the cults. One, the Confederação Espirita da Umbanda, claims, in Rio alone, more than 1,000 centers, known as terreiros (earth places...
...first ever put into the solar system by man. The Soviet Union's moon-probe missile-promptly dubbed "Lunik" by the Russians-was a giant achievement in the young history of space exploration, the first time man had ever broken anything free from the tight gravitational hold of earth...
...mute or not, they expected it to streak into a solar orbit Wednesday or Thursday on a pear-shaped course that possibly--barely possible--might one day swing it back to earth...
...enter an elliptical course between the earth and Mars, they said, taking 15 months to complete the swing around the sun that the earth completes in twelve...
Radio signals of the 1 1/2-ton projectile faded out as it passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a headlong dash from the earth into man's greatest conquest of space...