Word: planet
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Even though it is named for the mythic goddess of love, there is nothing very fetching about the planet Venus. It is veiled in a dense atmosphere of carbon dioxide, laced with corrosive clouds of sulfuric acid, and its surface temperatures hover around 900° F. Liquid water, if it ever existed, has long since vanished. Nothing, not even the hardiest microbes, could survive for long in this cauldron...
...settled in for what may be an attempt to eclipse the 211-day orbital endurance record set by the Soviets in 1982. With their three-man launch, the Soviets inadvertently joined with the Americans in establishing another mark. For almost four days last week, eight humans were circling the planet, two more than ever before...
...almost entirely to domestic and economic matters, Thatcher, who has been in office longer than any other leader of a major nation in Western Europe, sees herself as the person best equipped to serve as a link between Moscow and Washington. "I believe passionately that we share the same planet with other people who have different systems," she said before her departure for Budapest. "We really should try to cooperate in the interests of both our peoples." Associates acknowledge that she is realistic about any role she might play; she knows the real dialogue has to be between...
...normal body temperature is a cool 60° F. He has two hearts and is more than 750 years old. An expatriate from the planet Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, he shuttles through centuries and galaxies in the TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space machine), which is somehow contained inside a British police call box. Occasionally he and his young assistants touch down on a planet that looks suspiciously like the English countryside to battle the sinister forces of evil...
...emerged after Stalin's death in 1953 used the term peaceful coexistence to signal the Kremlin's interest in improving diplomatic contacts with the world. "Neither we nor the capitalist states want to make a trip to Mars, so we shall have to exist together on one planet," Khrushchev said during a visit to India in 1955. As he dismantled Stalin's apparatus of terror at home, the Soviets took their own word for the period from the title of a popular novel: The Thaw. The withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces (along with those of the Western...