Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stone was not exaggerating. Within a few days, Voyager had taught scientists more about Uranus than they had learned in the entire 205 years since it was discovered by Amateur Astronomer William Herschel. The spacecraft detected a tenth ring and ten tiny, previously undiscovered moons and discerned craters and other surface features on the five large moons that until now had been seen only as featureless spots of light through telescopes. It observed a reddish-brown haze at the planet's north pole and tracked cloud formations as they passed over the middle latitudes. The movement of the clouds seemed...
...Just as nicely unpolished," says Rocky Bleier, another retiree, "the same weight problem, the same quick release, the same compulsion to throw into the coverages." Police dogs were escorting Marino to his white Corvette in the parking lot. "What a ride he's on," murmured Bradshaw, whose Super Bowl ring features four gems. "I'm going to get me one of these," Marino said. "Yes," Bradshaw agreed, "and soon...
...this does not ring true somehow. Unlike the industrial adventurers of the 19th century, most people today are very much aware of the problems, economic and spiritual, wrought by dead-eyed materialism. Arnold's criticism of his times would not be a bit shocking in ours; such criticism has been along on the march of progress for quite a while--even if it often sounds like short- order disapproval, whipped up automatically for predictable occasions. The computer is born, the computer is pilloried. An oil rig goes up, conservationists marshal their forces. Nineteenth century minds may have planted the seeds...
...country's statutory-rape provisions at intermission." Gould even gleefully assaults the sacred memory of Beethoven, saying, "He is one composer whose reputation is based entirely on gossip." Coming from a man who raised imprudence to an even finer art than his pianism, those words have the clear ring of conviction...
...Unified School District. Its targets are math and English for junior high schoolers. "That's where the homework really starts to pile up for the first time," says Producer Bob Greene. Launched as a pilot last spring, Hotline drew 3,500 calls in twelve weeks, including a daily ring from Avery Smith, 10, a straight-A student (he just loved shoptalk, it seemed). The district allocated $170,000 to bring it back full time for the 1984-85 school year...