Word: outer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...district-court judge had overstepped his authority. Delighted oilmen predicted that test drilling might start as soon as year's end. The decision presumably will also encourage oil companies to bid on leases scheduled for sale early next year on two other geologically promising areas of the outer continental shelf: Georges Bank off Massachusetts and the Southeast Georgia Embayment...
...Thing from Another World, originally directed by Howard Hawks in 1951, and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), which will star Lily Tomlin this time as an incredible shrinking woman. Even the Disney studios are joining the sci-fi follies with a new kid flick titled The Cat from Outer Space...
...most of those who worked with Von Braun felt that he was a genius. Alan Lovelace, acting director of NASA, described the handsome German as "a 20th century Columbus who pushed back the new frontiers of outer space with efforts that enabled his adopted country to achieve pre-eminence in space exploration." Colleague Ernst Stuhlinger considered him an excellent engineer with an almost uncanny ability to visualize both a problem and its solutions, and a brilliant leader who could transmit his enthusiasm to others. Stuhlinger's admiration is understandable. When someone asked Von Braun what it would take...
...criticism and the praise, concentrating on his goal of turning the space race into a vehicle for international cooperation. He once said: "I look forward to the day when mankind will join hands to apply the combined technological ingenuity of all nations to the exploration and utilization of outer space for peaceful uses." That day has not yet arrived, but Von Braun's work has certainly helped to bring it closer...
Likewise, the extraordinary 17th century outer robe covered with woven brocade designs of autumnal grasses is intended (so the catalogue notes inform us) to convey the "melancholy, somewhat desolate mood" of "a lonely field at dusk." If this is melancholy, the mood was never more lyrically conveyed. The robe is an anthology of natural observation, with seven types of plants rendered in a marvelously clear, springy line, through gradations of color that result from the separate tinting, part by part, of each of the thousands of silk threads. Where the brown, gray and blue rectangles of the background meet...