Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those fools that made a mess of our monument grounds are the rakes of the earth, and can only enjoy the freedom of dissent as long as there are other Americans willing to go anywhere in the world to defend that privilege...
...data transmitted back to earth from Russia's Venus 4 and the U.S.'s Mariner 5 spacecraft, scientists last week pieced together a picture of Venus as a place of unbearable heat, a dense and noxious atmosphere, and nightmarish optical effects...
...visitor to Venus were insulated and refrigerated against the 536° F. surface temperature, he might survive long enough to see both a sunset and a sunrise, which occur 59 earth days apart. When it was high in the sky, the sun would appear as a familiar disk-if it could be seen through the murky Venusian clouds. But as it set, according to Stanford University Engineer and Physicist Von R. Eshleman, the disk would gradually diffuse itself around the entire horizon as a glowing band for the remainder of the night; sunlight is so bent, or refracted...
...landing capsule. Neither spacecraft found evidence of Van Allen-like radiation belts around Venus, both reported hydrogen coronas and found that carbon dioxide was the principal constituent of the Venusian atmosphere. Mariner's finding that the atmosphere was "at least" 7 to 8 times as dense as the earth's does not contradict more precise Russian data showing densities 15 to 22 times as great...
George was as terrified by his monstrous abstraction. He has seen forces rampant on the earth...