Word: orbital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whipple explained that although the celestial wanderer which he discovered last December had been acting queerly, it was still the same old comet. Observatories in England have reported that the body has been much brighter than its supposed orbit would indicate, but Whipple professed ignorance of the subject. The comet is rather small, as comets go, with a tail approximately one million miles in length, but could be seen with ordinary field glasses on a clear night...
After Hitler, in June 1940, created the fiction of an Unoccupied France and headed off French resistance from North Africa, one-third of Africa was at best neutralized, at worst pulled into the Axis orbit. The rest was saved for the United Nations: France's middle African colonies (Chad, Cameroun, Gabon), the rich Belgian Congo, onetime Italian East Africa. From Cape-Town to Cairo and west to Sierra Leone, Africa was preserved for Allied communications...
...moral, religious, military and industrial character." Up went the temperatures of diplomats in the old and the new worlds. They wondered how long it would be before Franco, backed once more by friends Hitler & Mussolini, would: 1) attack Gibraltar, 2) draw neutral Portugal into the Spanish orbit...
They are Copenhagen and Jazz Me Blues, Milenberg Joys and Sugar Foot Stomp; a pleasant new tune (Falling Star) which shines brightly in the mellow orbit of Songstress Connie Boswell; spirituals from the Hall Johnson Negro Choir; a jitterbug jam session by instrumentalists Benny Goodman, Harry James, Gene Krupa and others...
Long distinguished for his brawn, he has new won publicity for his scientific ability by computing the orbit of the new comet discovered last Saturday by Fred L. Whippe, lecturer on Astronomy. The computation, described by Thomas as "a routine astronomical calculation," involved a differential equation with six arbitrary constants...