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Word: littered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wheeling around a highly elliptical path, 1866 I is being gradually broken up by solar radiation, and the gravity of the sun and the larger planets. In the process, it has left a trail of countless meteoroids that now litter its entire orbital track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: November Showers | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...sunny side, where temperatures rise as high as 250°F., the luminescent meteorite particles that litter the lunar surface give off a small amount of light as soon as they are struck by the solar protons. On the dark side, the meteorites cannot luminesce because of the-240°F. cold; instead, they absorb the energy of the protons. During the two-week lunar night, Sun estimates, one pound of meteorite particles would soak up more than enough energy to burn ten 100-watt light bulbs for one hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Dr. Sun & the Moon | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...week during this first summer, Lindsay has spent a couple of hours walking through the ghettos, accompanied by plain clothesmen and one of his aides. Tanned and in shirt sleeves, the Mayor walks unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead rat, one of them...

Author: By Mary L. Wissler, | Title: Lindsay: Dilemmas of Policy and Politics | 10/3/1966 | See Source »

...area is a shambles. Gas and elec tric pipes litter the landscape. Giant earth movers snarl uphill and down. A tornado knocked the roof off the country-clubhouse even before it was finished, and as for the golf course it is still nothing but rough. Worst of all, the lake bed is dry. Yet customers are descending in droves to buy up lots in a new real estate development called the Lakes of the Four Seasons, a 20-minute drive from Gary, Ind. In less than two months, they have bought 550 of the 2,500 lots. Though prices start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: The Lakemaker | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

Zeph Stewart, Master of Lowell House, is flying back from England tomorrow and will arrive at the House at 2:30 p.m. One of the hosts said he would try to blame the litter on Acting Master Arthur T. Sutherland, who atended the party with his wife

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Courtyard Festivals Are for Those Who Have "Neither Youth Nor Age" | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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