Word: objection
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Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...
...This year is highlighted by the fabulous give-and-go strategy of the first-string Christmas shoppers. Also, I have followed religiously your see-saw struggle with the Irishman in that no-talk game. I don't fully understand the rules there. Is the object to talk to yourself the most or is it just not to talk...
...were dozens of little pieces following the main body, all burning and each with its little tail of fire just like the big piece." At a Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Hay River, 125 miles south of Yellowknife, Corporal Phil Pitts saw a "bright white and incandescent" glowing object and reported it as a meteorite. Told later that it was a uranium-bearing satellite, he declared: "My gosh, I was standing on the roof watching it go by. Maybe I'm sterile...
...object of all these huzzas was Rumania's diminutive dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, who turned 60 last week amid trumpetings of praise not heard in the East bloc since Stalin's day. Congratulatory telegrams poured into the Palace of the Republic in Bucharest. Busts and portraits were unveiled. A shrine was being built at his birthplace, in the farm village of Scornicesti. A special exhibition of 60 books on Ceauşescu from 30 countries opened in the capital. Moscow conferred the Lenin Prize, East Germany sent the Order of Karl Marx, and the Rumanian Academy...
...object picked by Miller was a quasar-like structure surrounded by an old, spherical galaxy. When the Miller group measured the red shift of light from that galaxy, the astronomers determined that the island of stars was 1 billion light-years away. And because the quasar-like object was imbedded in the galaxy, it was presumably the same great distance from the earth. Furthermore, the galaxy's brightness was consistent with that distance. Miller's conclusion: if the red shift was indeed a correct yardstick for an object that so closely resembled a quasar, it probably was accurate...