Word: peering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plants spring up from pictures. Shells resound with strange and vibrant organ music. Paper sea gulls take flight across a cloudless sky. When the young voyagers peer through holes in the map they spy black and white children from other lands and entice them to walk and bicycle across the water to the seventh continent...
...Conservative rally at Wembley last week, he called Wilson's record "the Rake's Progress" and his economic forecast "hooey" and "complacent nonsense." The British are not used to such harsh, direct attacks on their politicians, and Heath's blast prompted that unorthodox but stoutly Tory peer Lord Boothby to come to Wilson's defense. Boothby rose in the House of Lords and, in ironic tones, took note of Wilson's ability to recover. "The Prime Minister may not walk on the water today," he said, "but I believe he may well be walking...
Science-fiction connoisseurs see the precise Clarke as a latter-day Jules Verne. Space scientists who invited him to address the international conference on bioastronautics and space exploration three weeks ago obviously regard him as a peer. That broad acceptance testifies to the validity of the three premises of which Clarke bases all his writing, fiction and nonfiction alike...
...1970s. The big space station, said Gilruth, would be 615 ft. long, carry a crew of 100, and rotate end-over-end 31 times a minute to create an artificial gravity for those on board. Freed from the earth's atmosphere, astronomers on the station could peer through telescopes for an undistorted view of the destination of future space trips. How would this ambitious multimillion-dollar project be financed? An idea by Chemist Libby suggested one possible source of funds. In the nearly perfect vacuum of space, he said, scientists would finally have available the contamination-free conditions that...
Squirting Grease. "I would much rather have a pastorate," Fry once said, "than have to squirt grease into ecclesiastical machinery." Yet at the job of making churches run he had no peer. He served for six years as president of the Lutheran World Federation, which has 72 million members in 43 countries, and was also a founder-and lifetime president-of Lutheran World Relief, which last year sent $3,000,000 to aid victims of disaster and poverty around the world. In addition to governing his own denomination, he served for the last 14 years as chairman of the World...