Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva, the negotiators declared that the treaty rescues "two-thirds of the surface of the earth from the sphere of the arms race." Obviously, the big concern is the other third, where the world's 3.5 billion people live. Heartening as the seabed treaty may be, a more valid test of the Soviets' eagerness to make real progress in arms control is how soon they will move from the seas to SALT...
Darlington supplies his own definition of social class as "A group of people who breed together because they work together and work together because they breed together." With this definition in hand, he sorts peoples, nations, cities and even craftsmen into indigenous tribes. "Nothing on earth will make them come to terms with the general body of society," he writes of the Cosa Nostra, whom he classifies as hereditary criminals. "They are a race apart...
...huge meteor lit up the sky over central Mexico. A short time later, a B57 sped to the scene from Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Its mission was to collect any debris that might still be adrift after the fireball's searing entry into the earth's atmosphere. For the second time in history, investigators had been alerted quickly enough to seek such dust, which provides invaluable clues to the origin and chemical makeup of meteorites...
Nature's brute strength is never more frightening than during a major earthquake. The earth shifts with a sickening sway. Gaping fissures open in the ground. If the temblor strikes a populated area, roads may be torn up, buildings toppled and untold lives lost - as happened in Northeast Iran last year, when as many as 22,000 people were killed in two successive quakes. Such destructive force seems as devastating as a man-made nuclear blast. Fascinated by the awesome similarity, three Uni versity of Miami seismologists have now proposed using the power of the atom to tame...
Although their science is still in its in fancy, seismologists know that earth quakes are caused by gradual shifts of the earth's crust. As long as such movements are small and unimpeded, there is little danger of a quake. But strains inevitably build up along the fault line -the zone where the crust has moved from the rock adjacent to it. If these pressures become great enough, the crust suddenly breaks loose again, lurches violently and sends out shock waves in all directions...