Word: moons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paced the base line and outwaited opponents, rather than take high-risk shots or rush the net seeking quick winners. She was ordinary in strength of serve and speed of hand and foot. But she was extraordinary in the precision and timing of her passing shots, her high, looping moon balls, her lobs that landed as if by radar in unreachable corners of the court. Above all, she seemed nerveless. She did not fret about the point just past, however irritating her own error or an official's miscall, and she did not think about what would come next...
...course, the audience has had a summer of softening up. The Who, who had played at Woodstock, had already come back, getting a jump on things when they were meant to be gone for good. Keith Moon, their great drummer, had taken some of the band's careening keenness with him when he died in 1978. Pete Townshend, their great songwriter and guitar player, his hearing shredded by more than two decades of high decibels, could not even re-create all his lead parts. Still they soldiered on, three bowed veterans suffering the onset of shell shock from a barrage...
...that today's drugs of choice, both legal and illegal, are too dangerous and too seductive to be used safely. But he is convinced that nontoxic, nonaddictive drugs can be devised, even though "the research may require the same effort and cost man put forth to go to the moon." The utopian intoxicants he envisions would provide pleasure or stimulation within limits but would not cause a user to lose control, nor pose any danger of overdose. Such wonder drugs may be years away, Siegel concedes, but he notes that molecular chemists have developed hundreds of new psychoactive compounds that...
With the full-moon tides each May and June, tens of thousands of crabs swarm ashore like magic. Skittering shadows the size of an elephant's hoof, they mingle in piles along the water's edge. The sandy shoreline becomes the site of a vast, squabbling, tumultuous crab orgy...
...contrast, Triton, which is about the size of earth's moon, orbits in the opposite direction. That has led astronomers to guess that Triton might be a large asteroid that was captured by Neptune's gravity. Such an intrusion should have disrupted the paths of any existing moons. This would explain tiny Nereid's highly elongated and tilted orbit. But 1989-N1 is just "sitting there," says Voyager project scientist Torrence Johnson, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Johnson expects that the probe will discover more moons, shedding light on Triton's origins. "All of the outer planets have lots...