Word: marees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diameter, which blasted great holes in the crust at a time when the moon's interior was hot and plastic. Dark lava welled up in the holes, and is visible there today. Kuiper thinks that the shock of the last big asteroid, which dug the sea called Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains), may have caused pressures inside the moon that made lava flow out in other places, forming other seas. The lack of seas on the far side of the moon, says Kuiper, favors this theory, since the meteor impact that dug Mare Imbrium would affect the far side...
...space program still in deep and serious trouble? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Prematurely-Grey Mare...
...President of the U.S. personally untangled some of the reins of that prematurely grey mare, the U.S. space program, last week. In doing so, he created a wonder that the thing had ever moved at all. And he notably missed a chance to give it a sharp slap on the rump and get it headed somewhere...
Raisin in the Sun. Bob Ussery learned to ride back home in Vian, Okla., a little farming town (green beans, cotton, corn) near the Arkansas border. His father was a clerk in the general store, had five children, a pump and an outhouse; his grandfather had a big black mare named Kate. When he was seven and weighed just 55 Ibs., Ussery was clattering across the Oklahoma flatland, perched like a raisin on the bare back of Kate, and celebrating a win over other mounted kids by riding straight into a water hole, Kate...
...POEMS (Caedmon). The persistent bestseller among the pressed poets introduces his fourth posthumous album by biting the fans that fed him, with an assault on the "culture vultures" who lie in wait for traveling English poets. That chore out of the way, he sets to reading Walter de la Mare, W. H. Auden, Thomas Hardy in the familiar, tumult-ringing style that makes every poet who ever lived sound like Dylan Thomas...