Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, Brady found a peculiar irregularity: on each approach to the sun, Halley's Comet shows up as many as four days earlier or later than its predicted arrival date. That variation seemed to indicate that some unknown force must be influencing the comet's motion. Could it be the gravitational tug of a planet beyond Pluto...
...more than half again as far as Pluto). It would take 464 years to complete a single trip around the sun, and the plane of its orbit would be tilted an angle of approximately 60° from the general orbital planes of the planets. Strangest of all, its motion would be retrograde; that is, it would travel around the sun in the opposite direction from all the other planets...
...major papers: Cleveland's morning Plain Dealer (circ. 409,935) and the Detroit News (650,180), the nation's largest afternoon daily. That made the X blackout effective for 7% of the total U.S. daily circulation and brought forth a protest from Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. No newspaper, said Valenti, should be able to dictate what people can or cannot...
...most larcenous defender, and dazzling Earl ("The Pearl") Monroe, beginning to return to his best ball-handling form after a season hobbled by injuries. Starting forwards are Dave DeBusschere, a bruising rebounder and probably the N.B.A/s best defensive forward, and "Dollar Bill" Bradley, a study in thoughtfully planned perpetual motion...
Behind the motion are Stanley L. Cavell, Cabot Professor of Aesthetics, and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science. The final motion may bear Cavell's name only, but it will likely be the product of both minds. Standing with Mendelsohn after Tuesday's Faculty meeting, Cavell explained "We work as a team...