Word: highly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Echo Chamber. The solar-wind spectrometer was also working well, even though it had, for the moment, little to detect; the moon was passing through the earth's magnetic tail (April 22, 1966), which shielded the lunar surface from the high-velocity solar particles that normally bombard it. Meanwhile, the seismometer had recorded an unexplained, two-minute tremor. And scientists were still trying to explain the strange vibrations recorded for 55 minutes by the instrument immediately after Intrepid's ascent stage impacted into the Ocean of Storms...
...roster of Peking's staunch allies in Europe numbers precisely one- Albania. Accordingly, the Chinese dispatched a high-powered delegation to Tirana last week to help the Albanians celebrate the 25th anniversary of their liberation from Nazi occupation. At the head of the team was a man whose name and background were little known outside Peking until this summer-Li Hsien-nien, a jowly, rumpled man in his early 60s who is very likely to become China's next Foreign Minister...
...when Raff was 13, Papa Minichiello moved his family back to the U.S. and settled on a farm outside Seattle, where the old man had relatives. The abrupt transition was traumatic for Raff. He could neither speak nor read English. Classes at Foster High School became a routine torture; he fell hopelessly behind and, without his father's knowledge, regularly played hooky...
...went out for wrestling at Foster High, and I was good. But I didn't know if I wanted to win or lose. If I won, I felt sorry for the other guy. And if I lose, I think, that's not good, I didn't try, I should of won. And I would...
...there and they'll be waiting for you with a smile. Then pow! And the lights go out." They rarely go out for Owens, even though he operates in heavy traffic-from tackle to tackle. There have been times, however, when his savage, slashing style-quick start, high knee action, body leaning forward -proved embarrassing. More than once, he has burst through into the secondary, only to have his own momentum carry him helplessly forward and pitch him head first and untouched onto the turf. "It was humiliating," he says. "Just imagine shaking loose with all that grass...