Word: outerness
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...opening ceremony in the huge Sports Stadium indicates the arrational tones of the rallies. An expectant hush was broken by the Czechoslovakian motorcycle brigade, complete with flags, as it raced about the outer track, followed by briefly clad athletes and the Parade of Nations. The accompaniment was an excited running description from the loudspeakers, the periodic release of colorful balloon clusters, bombs bursting and dropping "peace and friendship" signs in every language, and finally the freeing of thousands of white "peace doves." The Austrians sardonically reported that the Soviet skyrockets finished off the doves...
...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...
Many J.P.L. experiments seem unspectacular. One lab is studying the behavior of solid fuels that will burn at the low pressure that rockets encounter at the outer fringes of the atmosphere. A huddle of men in blue smocks stare at a mirror next to a thick window set in a concrete wall. Reflected in the mirror is a 2-ft. object like an outsized bug bomb. For a few noisy seconds, a blue flame spurts out of the bomb, then turns to a wavering trail of smoke. "It chuffed," says one of the men glumly. "That...
...explain the meaning of the Sabbath and the holy days, the sacred symbols and rites of the Torah, the Talmud, and the lines of division in modern Judaism. Again and again Wouk draws on his personal experience. After describing the negative injunctions of Sabbath observance, which cuts off the outer world from Friday's sundown to "the end of twilight on Saturday," he demonstrates its positive side in terms of a Sabbath during the crisis-fraught readying of a Broadway play. "Leaving the gloomy theatre, the littered coffee cups, the shouting stagehands, the bedevilled director, I have come home...
...tool is yearly testing (aptitude v. achievement), an art that has come far since the old one-shot IQ score. The tests cannot measure inherent ability (testers used to think they could). They do determine "developed ability," a blend of innate talents and outer influences, which can be changed by home and school. With his wiggly blocks and foolish questions. the guidance man strikes some parents as a dangerous bore: George will go to Harvard no matter his score. Let George do it-if he can. Guidance counselors are after bigger game: the brainy boy from a culture-poor family...