Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schoolteacher and by 1953 "visualize myself starting literature lessons. The following spring my pupils pass their examinations." But blond, slant-eyed Vladimir Barkov has no doubts whatever concerning the year 1963. By then, believes Vladimir, triumphant Soviet science will have perfected atomic control and powered a voyage to the moon. Out of thousands of applicants, three young men will be chosen to man the first Mars-bound ship. Vladimir will be one. "Before starting," he writes, "I peruse my diaries and see how happy were my years of study and research which led to this interplanetary trip. In our collective...
...Over the Moon. The Department of Agriculture predicted that meat prices, which hit a new high last month (295% of the 1909-14 average), would go even higher this summer and fall. Reasons: 1) a seasonal decline in the already low rate of production, 2) an "unusually strong" demand due to high consumer income...
...Kalitinsky sounded hopeful, as if he had items of progress which he wished he could crow about. But he warned his listeners not to "expect to see an atomic-powered rocket taking off for the moon this year or next...
...night last week, under a bright quarter moon, Manhattan music fans gathered for the season's first outdoor concert at Lewisohn Stadium. A stocky, apple-cheeked woman, violin in hand, marched to the center of the stage, nodded confidently to the conductor...
...Moon-faced Rene Magritte is convinced that he works mostly in his sleep. As soon as he wakes in the morning, he splashes his dreams on canvas before the memory fades. He is a gentle little man, "an animal lover, and I dislike terrorism, as I worship pleasure and charm...