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Word: earthly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orbiting the earth once every 88 minutes and its apogee is 119 miles," Waller added...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Skylab's Orbit Crosses Boston Area Tomorrow | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

National Aeronautics and Science Agency (NASA) officials have pinpointed Skylab's entry into the earth's atmosphere at 10:28 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The calculation is a midway point and it can fall 15 hours on either side...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Skylab's Orbit Crosses Boston Area Tomorrow | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...spacecraft will break up into approximately 500 pieces, with most weighing less than ten pounds, NASA officials said. However, the air lock shroud weighs 3900 pounds and the lead film safe weighs 5100 pounds. Both objects are likely to strike the earth at speeds greater than 260 miles per hour...

Author: By Gary G. Curtis, | Title: Skylab's Orbit Crosses Boston Area Tomorrow | 7/10/1979 | See Source »

...name traces to an old North American Indian legend that when the earth's animals have been hunted almost to extinction, a rainbow warrior will come down from the sky to protect them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Whale of a War off Iceland | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...pumping to tomato picking, finally scraped together enough money for a London grubstake. He got to town just in time to get caught up in the first seismic shudders of punk and to join forces with the Rumour, a band that sounds like a five-man scorched-earth policy. Parker and the Rumour recorded their first album in 1976, got tagged both as punk's precursor and then, just months later, as the movement's first sellout. Soon after that Parker's career stalled over a hasty and ill-received live album and a subsequent wrangle with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Barnstorming For Fool's Gold | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

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