Word: intersections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open the bedroom door and find a big yellow puddle in between me and the bathroom. It is this--not the fondling, not the playing of tricks, not the 'stand up; roll over, boy"--that most frequently causes the vectors of your life and the dog's to intersect. That is to say, that in terms of existential moments you get to know the dog by what it leaves behind...
...against the draft is a sacrificial act by which one "votes" his own concept of duty to country. Last week more than 100 Woodrow Wilson Fellows from across the nation said that they would not fight. As Stanford Senior Hugh West sees it: "Jail is where patriotism and morality intersect...
...obviously beginning to win some supporters. Where Nixon treats Viet Nam in gingerly generalities, Romney has lately hammered out at least a comprehensible if debatable formula calling for "neutralization" of the two Viet Nams, Laos and Cambodia. In fact, the Michigander's war views are beginning to intersect more and more with those of Democratic Peace Candidate Eugene McCarthy. "The pattern of public deception over Viet Nam has not receded in the last 5½ months," Romney said in New Hampshire last week, defending his "brainwashing" charge against the Administration. "If anything, it has been escalated...
Tombaugh believes that the canals are faults or fractures, several miles wide, in the Martian crust. Their darkening and fading may be caused, he says, by the intermittent escape of hot gases that melt a thin layer of frost and vegetation. The oases where the faults intersect, he speculates, are probably impact craters where moisture gathers and promotes the growth of moss or lichenlike plants hardy enough to withstand the harsh Martian climate...
...converting the sun's energy into electricity. With those panels deployed, it measured 22 ft. 7½ in. across and 9½ ft. to the top of its antenna. Curving into a wide-swinging, elliptical orbit that was precisely plotted in advance, the ship set out to intersect the orbit of Mars at a predetermined time...