Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...satellite also established for the first time that both the number of meteorite particles and the strength of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon are higher than in interplanetary space. It also discovered 70 to 100 times as many energetic electrons as are expected in outer space. Russian scientists attributed the electrons to the "earth's magnetic tail...
...fundamentally religious assault on a century that, in his opinion, had ripped up the nourishing taproot of tradition and let wither all the dear things of the world. God it had killed and in his stead had raised up gadgets; and in gadgets had gone haring into outer space to hide from an inner vacuity unbearable to contemplate. Reflected in his icy eye, a mad world knew that it was mad, but it has recently suspected that Waugh, like most great satirists, was a little mad as well. In his later years he became in fact the most scarifying...
...itself been somewhat inflated. Though there are ample signs of danger, the U.S. is not yet suffering from the serious inflation that precedes, and frequently causes, severe economic trouble. Lyndon Johnson noted last week that, as far as he could tell, the economy was not "shooting off into outer space." It is to make sure that this does not happen that Johnson all week -in public and in private, over telephone and microphone-exhorted everyone from housewife to Governor, labor leader to corporation head, to fight off inflation by clamping a tight rein on his spending. "The amber light...
Then came the first dizzying and unexpected vision of the earth below, seeming to spin, and the sudden, explosive separation of the two spaceships. Finally, as the freed Gemini began to roll faster and faster, the camera recorded the alternating brightness of reflected sunlight and the darkness of outer space sweeping in accelerating flashes across the craft's nose until the film...
...three-fourths of the students' families earn less than $3,000 a year, and half have only one parent at home. The films, say's Negro Principal Nathaniel Dixon, let the school "take these children to places where they have never been-to distant lands, to the outer limits of space, to the world beneath the sea, to farm and factories." He finds that "the sensory impact of motion, sound and color" stimulates slow learners. Besides that, first-graders are proud that even they can operate the projectors, and Fourth Grade Teacher Irvin Gordy says that the films...