Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...squad's journey from Ivy League title contention as late as the seventh game of its schedule to Ivy cellar-dwellers by season's end is as puzzling as it is disappointing...
There are more inviting ways to introduce a 700-page novel, especially one that relies on the gradual accumulation of incident rather than the easy gimmicks of popular fiction. But there are no acceptable shortcuts in Treadup's journey of selfdiscovery or Hersey's exploration of the missionary character. Among his primary sources are the letters of his mother and father, although Treadup is not Roscoe Hersey, as the book's appended notes make clear, but a composite of at least half a dozen Protestant evangelists. As such, he can be a charismatic teacher who scoots around northern China...
Sniffing a connection, Rampino and a Goddard colleague, Astrophysicist Richard Stothers, among others, proposed an ingenious way that the oscillating journey might trigger bombardments on earth. Whenever the sun passes through the Milky Way plane, they suggested, the swirls of dust it encounters would gravitationally disrupt the Oort cloud, a vast bubble of comets that scientists believe surrounds the solar system at a distance of up to 10 trillion miles from the sun. Like a lazy fruit picker shaking plums from a tree, the dust would send showers of comets falling toward the sun. Some comets would collide with...
...Belgian-born astrophysicist at the University of Toledo in Ohio, announced that he had just about zeroed in on the best place for Muller or Chester to look for the death star. He has plotted the paths of 126 comets and discovered to his great surprise that they journey around the sun in oddly skewed orbits. Some very powerful object must be out there gravitationally directing the flow of traffic, he says, and that object could be Nemesis...
...FILMMAKER'S JOURNEY...