Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter-mile trundle to the regular radiation treatment center. At week's end, when his white-blood-cell count rose, the doctors still had more drugs in reserve to beat back the rejection mechanism, and they stepped up his cobalt-60 treatments. Washkansky's liver shrank to nearer normal size; Denise's heart and his kidneys worked so well together that he lost 20 Ibs. of edema fluid...
...Blue. Not surprisingly, as Moskowitz's imaginary ship moved far beyond the solar system, the appearance of the sky began to change. As the ship approached them, the nearer stars began to shift their positions in familiar constellations, eventually disappearing from forward view as the spacecraft passed them. More distant stars remained in relatively fixed positions. In the view from the rear, the sun faded from sight as the craft flew beyond a distance of 30 light-years from the solar system, while 45 Eridani loomed ever larger ahead...
...Greeks outgunned (480,000 men under arms and 450 combat aircraft v. Greece's 158,000 men and 250 warplanes) and that moreover, the Greek junta had almost no international support and would be likely to back down on the Cyprus issue. Because Cyprus is so much nearer to Asia Minor than to Greece, the Turks also felt that their planes could easily hold air superiority over the island...
Although "disappointed" over Vassar's decision, Brewster did not feel that the joint study was in vain. "The thinking and development by the joint committee has brought us much nearer to the goal of a first-rate college for women in New Haven," he said at yesterday's press conference...
...dolphin named Peter in a flooded room for 21 months in an attempt to communicate more effectively. She found Peter to be very responsive. As a matter of fact, Peter exhibited considerable interest in effecting some kind of sexual breakthrough, indicating that Dr. Lilly may be a good deal nearer the truth about inter-species communication than even he suspected...