Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might have achieved last week's victory more than four decades ago. Indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in the 1925 test case, he was convicted and fined a nominal $100 by a circuit court judge. Tennessee's Supreme Court later voided the circuit court fine, on the ground that the jury and not the judge should have set the penalty. By its action, the state court prevented Scopes from taking his case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...first Christian cells-under ground churchlets in constant fear of persecution-were united by a common faith rather than any formal organization. Initially, there was no strong distinction between clergy and laymen; bishops were frequently chosen by the people at informal assemblies. In the post-Apostolic period, the special place of Rome came to be recognized by other churches-not as having any monarchical jurisdiction but as a symbol of Christian unity and court of appeals in doctrinal disputes. Even so, the epoch-making decisions on heresy that beset the early church were resolved by general councils in Asia Minor...
That danger is a long shot indeed. Apollo's engine has been checked countless times in flight and on the ground. At the slightest hint of trouble, the mission could be safely aborted at any of a dozen points along the way. Even as Apollo nears the moon, the astronauts will still be able to make a "nogo" decision. Should the spacecraft fail to be slowed down as planned, it can simply make a high-speed loop of the moon and head back toward earth...
...white landscape slides irrelevantly back and forth into view like an askew plane in space. You expected beforehand to have a feeling of neat perpendicularity towards the land you were falling to. But as you fall, your mind isn't aware of any geometrical relationship to the ground; it relates only to the airplane...
That happens four seconds after you jump out. You smile the rest of the way down, floating very slowly for two and a half minutes down to the ground. You have a very clear mental understanding of your geometrical relationship to the land...