Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Below them, less than 70 miles away, lay a desolate, pock-marked landscape. In the black sky above hung a half-disk -the earth-its blue and brown surface mottled by large patches of white. Thus, incredibly, they were there, precisely where the mission planners had predicted, finally living the dreams of untold generations of their ancestors. In orbit around the moon and 230,000 miles farther away from home than any humans had ever before traveled, the Apollo 8 astronauts conveyed impressions of their pioneering adventure with words that at times were poetic. Their telecasts gave earthbound viewers...
That, Gajdusek says, may have been a mistake. Some of these delayed-fuse viruses may take years to exert their malign effects in small animals, and decades in long-lived Homo sapiens. Virologist Gajdusek, a human whirlwind who goes around the world half a dozen times a year, decided to become a model of patience. At the institute, he set up a long-range study program with a variety of animals, ranging from tree shrews to sheep and goats, a dozen species of monkeys, and a number of forbiddingly expensive chimpanzees...
...money supply expanded at an annual rate of 8% during the year's first half. Even after the midyear tax increase, the Fed's governors continued to ease credit because, like most other experts, they misjudged how quickly the surtax would begin to brake the economy. In the last three months, the Fed has changed course, holding the increase in the money supply to a moderately constrictive rate of 3.8% a year...
...winning the title in 1915 and losing it four years later to Jack Dempsey, the 6-ft. 61-in , 250-lb. fighter became the fated protagonist in two of the most controversial fights in ring history. The result was that for nearly half a century he was dismissed by the great majority of fight fans as the Great White Hoax. It was an unfair judgment, and before he died last week at 86, Willard was belatedly recognized as one of boxing's most underrated heavyweights...
...merely bystanders. In a recent game against the Lakers, he grabbed 27 rebounds to Wilt Chamberlain's 21. Two weeks ago, against the Boston Celtics, he hauled down 27 to Bill Russell's 14. Off the defensive boards, Unseld gloms onto the ball and rockets it to half court so quickly that the Bullets' chief offensive threat this season is their headstart fast break...