Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camera aboard Lunar Orbiter 2 from a point only 28.4 miles above the moon's surface, and about 150 miles south of Copernicus, the picture gave scientists a fresh slant on one of the moon's most prominent craters. For the first time they could, in effect, peer over the rim of Copernicus and get a close-in look at its walls, floor and central mountains-areas they had seen through earth-based telescopes, but only from directly above. The new look may have already shed new light on the processes that formed the pockmarked surface...
Although he is equally opposed to the use of both the psychedelics and marijuana, Farnsworth differentiated between the dangers posed by the two. Marijuana, unlike LSD, is not intrinsically harmful, he noted, "but its danger lies in the peer group pressure to go on to other things. The harm is not to the brain, but to the individual...
...places. He made no attempt to hide personal likes and dislikes, which were legion. But he was always intelligent, almost always logical, and all to frequently right. Mayer might have been outclassed in the world of politics, but as a politician in the world of theatre, he was without peer...
Tuesday, November 22 CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). 'Inside Red China," narrated by Marvin Kalb. Films taken last spring by a West German crew peer inside homes, a steel mill and a university, also show life in a farm commune and the cities of Shanghai, Peking and Wuhan. Other films document the recent upheavals of the Red Guards...
...race is at two miles and will pit the mighty three-year-old colt against one of his chief peer rivals, Amberoid, as well as older horses. It can be seen on the Race of the Week, channel...