Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front of X, but the distant event will give scientists a rare opportunity to test an equally far-out and still unproven deduction from Albert Einstein's theories of relativity. Instead of simply blocking the light from a distant star that it is eclipsing, Einstein predicted, the nearer star would create a lens-like effect that would actually intensify the image of the eclipsed star, increasing its brightness perhaps more than 1,000 times. The phenomenon would be caused by the closer star's strong gravitational field, which would deflect and focus light from the distant star...
...send several children to college. Just because there are other people who ought to be making more money (teachers come to mind, although in general teacher salaries have been rising fairly rapidly in the last ten years) is no reason why transit workers should not be earning something nearer the wages which other city employees get for comparable work...
...moon itself seemed nearer and definitely accessible. Man's technical talents had brought a lunar visit down out of the realm of science fiction. The Apollo program, with its planned lunar landing before the decade runs out, no longer seemed a fanciful goal for overambitious scientists. From the scorched launching pads of Cape Kennedy to the lonely tracking ships in the Pacific, Gemini had pumped new life into U.S. space work. And a public grown almost blasé about news of men in orbit waited for the astronauts' return with singular pride...
...THOUSAND DAYS: JOHN F. KENNEDY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Some of Kennedy's advisers stood nearer the President, but none was better equipped than Harvard Historian Schlesinger to pay public respect to his memory. Perceptive as history and vivid as memoir, this-despite its touches of partisanship-is the most balanced assessment yet of the Kennedy years...
Schirra would have to pilot Gemini 6 into a rendezvous with Borman and Lovell. How hard would it be, he was asked? If Ranger 7 could find a tiny area on the moon accurately, would it be harder to rendezvous with a much-nearer satellite...