Word: past
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sexual revolutions have failed in the past, it may be because half the fighting force has always been left behind the lines, without rank or training. I would be bitter for myself and my female ancestors, but I'm too busy enjoying all this "good clean pornography" and getting rid of hang...
Continuing their flawless flight, the astronauts zoomed past the western rim of the moon at 5,645 m.p.h. They were whipped behind the far side and into lunar orbit by the moon's gravity and a 5-min. 57-sec. burn of the reliable SPS engine that reduced their speed to 3,736 m.p.h. When they emerged from behind the eastern edge, after 34 minutes during which radio communication was blocked, they had dropped into a 70-by 196-mile-high orbit...
...result being a tremendous number of disconnected short sequences which leave one with no sense of what one character is trying to do or be in relation to the next, or any sense that what they are doing was once (in Heinrich Boil's novel Billiards at Half-Past Nine) a plot...
There are exactly two different kinds of peoples in the South: those who are just past the rich-enough line so they can have air conditioning in their house, their car, and their office, and those on the other side of the line who have to sweat all the time. The air conditioned ones are fatter, pale, and old. They sweat people are rugged, skinny, and tired but tough. When we were hitchhiking into Montgomery, Ala., the air conditioned guys used to zap by with their windows rolled up not even looking at us, not even looking at anything...
...invites prolonged domination by one performer. If a player can develop an impeccable technical style, if he can add to it a deceptive craftiness and sharpen it with a killer instinct, and if his legs and reflexes hold up, he can match younger, quicker opponents until he is well past 30, and still come out a champion. Tilden, Budge, and Gonzales all dominated professional tennis, but few have brought to the game such well-balanced excellence and natural panache as Australian Rod Laver, and none have ever reaped the financial rewards that modern pro tennis has, and will, give...