Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural disaster: "The house became buried to the eaves. Boulders sat on the roof. Thirteen automobiles were packed around the building, including five in the pool . . . The stuck horn of a buried car was blaring. The family in the darkness in their fixed tableau - watched one another by the light of a directional signal endlessly blinking...
...intrusion should have disrupted the paths of any existing moons. This would explain tiny Nereid's highly elongated and tilted orbit. But 1989-N1 is just "sitting there," says Voyager project scientist Torrence Johnson, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Johnson expects that the probe will discover more moons, shedding light on Triton's origins. "All of the outer planets have lots of junk around them," he notes. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus have at least 15 moons apiece. "It would be amazing if we got to Neptune and didn't find a bunch of these things...
...When we go down a road and stop at a light, white people and black people look at us all mad like," says Robert. "I wave at them. When the light changes, I wave them on and say, 'God bless...
...Supreme Soviet, led by Gorbachev, approved a resolution endorsing plans to allow Lithuania and Estonia to manage their own economies freely, outside the control of central planners in Moscow. Baltic economists say they intend to develop Western-style market economies similar to those in Scandinavia, based on light industry and agriculture and free to sell or barter with other Soviet republics or foreign countries...
These mismatches keep the adrenaline flowing and the nostalgia and hopes burning for a flock of Foreman camp followers. Archie Moore, who the record books say is 75, was light-heavyweight champ until he was at least 48. Now Moore has signed on as resident guru and gerontologist. "Ah, the wisdom and cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just...