Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Likening the eradication of discrimination and racial tension to the nation's quest to place an American on the moon 20 years ago, Rom said that "if we have the will to do it, we can do it--if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we remedy [our current racial and ethnic situation...
...even 20 years later, looking with a more observant eye at the live footage of the first landing on the moon, it is easy to see why the Apollo mission captured the imagination of the nation as it did. Twenty years (and more) of science fiction movies have been unable to recreate the silent majesty of the lunar landscape on the day it was first marred by human footprints...
TWENTY years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first walked on the moon, President Bush now wants the U.S. to return there. His plan calls for the establishment of a permanent lunar base, which would serve as a way-station for an expedition to Mars, and eventually as a stepping stone for further exploration of the solar system...
Over the past three decades, our space program has had its share of ups and downs, with the greatest triumph being the moon landings and the greatest failure being the death of the seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger...
Toad yearned always for the wild walking, of course. But he sighed the sigh of resignation. The whole world now is a beaten track. Even if Toad went to the moon for a hike, he would find footprints there...