Word: rimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to stand at the rim of the world," he once wrote, "and peer into the darkness beyond, and see a little more than others have see, of the strange shapes of mystery that inhabit that unknown night...I want to bring back into the world of men some little bit of new wisdom. There is a little wisdom in the world; Heraclitus, Spinoza, and saying here and there. I want to add to it, even if only ever so little...
...enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin's rim are not frightened by the possibility of a misguided spaceship landing in the middle of town. No other spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin, has the same natural advantages, existing facilities, and willingness to accept the risks of the space...
...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...
This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
Less than three minutes later at the start of the second quarter O'Hiri lined a clear left-footed shot into the upper corner of the goal from the right rim of the circle...