Word: meanly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...limited fuel reserves. Because Neil Armstrong was forced at the last minute to take over the controls to avoid setting down in a boulder-strewn crater, NASA has scheduled landings on only the flattest lunar terrain until the LM's fuel capacity can be increased. That will mean no sorties into deep craters or rocky highlands for at least four more Apollo flights...
...simulated tests on earth, however, such lowly forms of life as bacteria have survived in a Marslike environment. Moreover, some biologists theorize, life could have evolved on Mars by entirely unfamiliar biological processes. That does not mean that scientists expect to find strange, advanced beings on Mars. But they do not preclude the possibility of primitive life unlike anything ever seen on earth...
...Soviet Union, where everybody is obliged to spy on everybody else and where hypocrisy prevails, does not allow anyone to take the risk of entrusting a single person with such a secret. Moreover, I was twice refused permission to travel abroad. I realized that a third refusal would mean that I would never be allowed out of Russia...
Sarkees fear that union with Guernsey would mean a loss of their ancient privileges. On Sark there is no personal income tax. Instead, after consulting, a dozen of the island's leading citizens set a "poor tax," based on how prosperous a resident appears. "We more or less guess," says William Baker, head of the island's parliament, which is called the Court of Chief Pleas. "We know approximately how much money everyone has and decide how much he can afford...
...drifter whom he had successfully defended along with Candy Mossier, 49, in the celebrated 1964 murder of Multimillionaire Jacques Mossier. Powers, 27, was incensed over Foreman's suit to obtain legal fees involving several hundred thousand dollars from Powers' Aunt Candy. "Look you bastard, I'm mean," raged Powers, gesturing threateningly. "I'm tough too," replied the husky lawyer. Then, as onlookers gaped, Powers went on: "Don't forget. I've already killed one old man and it wouldn't bother me to kill another one." "Oh, yeah?" asked Foreman. "If you killed...