Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the mayors and mayor-elects participating in the seminar are Edward I. Koch of New York City, Thomas F.X. Smith of Jersey City, New Jersey, Charles Royer of Seattle, Moon Landrieu of New Orleans, and Warren Widener of Berkeley, California...
...tour of China, has been able to write in the New York Times about the educational system, border strife and other subjects with greater depth than he could during a 1972 trip. He explains: "There was a lot of gee-whiz reporting then. It was like landing on the moon...
...that time, we didn't accept Christianity. We worshipped whatever we had. If the hunt was successful, we worshipped the hunt. We worshipped the sun, we worshipped the moon, we worshipped the ground we walk on, and I think it should be that way. This is the way I feel. Because we have believed from way back," Moore says. Today, most Passamaquoddies are Catholics. Some say they are Catholics before they are Indians. The reservation's public school, which holds classes up to the eighth grade, was a parochial school five years ago. Nuns still work at the school. Peering...
...grow apples on the moon...
Clarke has the power to inspire his readers, given the right topic. Witness the parallel he draws between a Saturn V launching and the beginning of life: "Five hundred million years ago, the moon summoned life out of its first home, the sea...[As] it drew the tides across the barren continents of primeval earth, their daily rhythm exposed to sun and air the creatures of the shallows...Now, the moon calls again and this time life responds with a roar that shakes earth and sky." In Serendip, unfortunately, Clarke's prose--burdened by the inappropriate subject matter--plods more...