Word: planet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 700 years in the dark ages, the ancient land where agriculture dawned and civilization first lit the planet is stirring again. Sudden wealth has been thrust upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq...
...that year, the candidate of a labor-controlled Demo cratic Party will be elected President. His Democratic successor in 1964: Labor Chieftain Walter Reuther. As for Richard Nixon, Jeane Dixon doesn't "know why the Democrats hate him so, because he is riding a terribly high planet ... is an instrument for good [and] will become a very real power in our Government...
...lunar plains, which are made of some darker material than the rest of the moon's surface, are actually lava beds poured out from once-active volcanoes whose craters now it the moon's surface. Recent observations, however, suggest that the moon has been a cold planet for so long that volcanic activity is not a satisfactory explanation of its topography. Instead, the belief is growing that its craters were torn out by meteorites, and that the plains are huge seas of dust...
...American theater the death of Sherwood has an effect comparable to the removal of a major planet from a solar system. Nothing will be the same for any of us, near or far, from now on. There is no disguising that the death of Robert Sherwood is a heavy misfortune for us and for our times. We wish the dice could have fallen the other way. It was a better world when we had him with...
...colleagues in the university," the physicist said, "the scientist tends to seem more a man from another planet, a creature uttering profound but incomprehensible truths, or a technician scattering antibiotics with one hand and atomic bombs with the other...