Word: meteoric
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...Hodges greeted her husband calmly. "We had a little excitement around here," she said. "A meteor fell through the roof." But her calm was soon shaken. Hewlett Hodges was furious. He had a bruised wife, a hole in his roof and he had not even seen the black stone that was causing all the fuss. He denounced the Air Force for carrying off his meteorite, whose potential value was brought to his attention by Lawyer Huel Love of Talladega. What with Hewlett's carryings-on and the crowds of people tramping in and out to look at her living...
...Meteor Expert Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico has figured out the chances of any human getting hit in 100 years are only three out of ten (TIME, Nov.12...
...expanded so much that its temperature has fallen to that of the stratosphere, about -68° F. But when it hits a model, friction heats the gas to 7,000° F., making it brightly luminous. The gas streams around the model like the glowing trail of a meteor. The flow lasts so short a time (1/1000th of a second) that the model is not damaged, but this brief period is long enough to permit the scientists to study its effects...
...gets a rugged workout, with luminous gas racing around it hot enough to melt or vaporize any known substance. If it enters sideways with a yawing motion, as is more likely, the heating effect is much greater. A steel ball or a sharp-edge wedge turns into an artificial meteor...
...Desires (Meteor-Fama; Grand Prize Films) is the first German film in several years that is worth the expense of its subtitles. It starts as a brisk thriller about a drug-addicted ballerina who pilfers her poison from an apothecary's safe. But soon the picture is twisting through some gothic involutions of motive, and it finishes in one of those duels of abstractions the Germans love and almost manage to make believable...