Word: outerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bennett Street transit yards hide their dirty insides from the outer world. A seven-foot wall, smeared with the faded paint of overzealous Dartmouth fans, watches over Boylston Street. A high steel fence stands sentinel on Memorial Drive as the ugly eyes of old subways stare out at passing cars...
Almost all the good effects result from the drug's unrivaled ability to pass through human skin like a hot knife through butter. And since so many other drugs dissolve readily in DMSO, they can hitch a ride with it and quickly penetrate the horny (outer) layers of the skin, thus reaching hitherto inaccessible areas...
...billion manned space laboratory by late 1968 (see SCIENCE). He went out of his way to soothe Soviet suspicion of such militarily useful hardware, promised to invite a "very high-level" Russian scientist to witness the launching of Gemini 6 in October. Said Johnson: "Our American dream for outer space is a dream of peace and a dream of friendly cooperation among all of the nations of the earth. We believe the heavens belong to the people of every country...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...
...President was understandably proud of his choice. Gardner, he said, "has been all of his adult life an explorer in the search for excellence. As we near the outer edges of this century, the loss of quality and the discovery of excellence become the searing issues of the times. I know of no one who is better suited by temperament, by experience, and by intellectualism to confront these issues and bend them to the national desire...