Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cattlemen also were hard hit. In recent years Florida's year-round pasturage, which normally eliminates the need of laying by hay and feed for winter, has helped make the state an important beef producer. Last week Florida's 1,400,000 head of Brahmas, Santa Gertrudis, Herefords and Aberdeen-Anguses were so weakened by malnutrition and weeks of slushing around in soggy pastures that cattlemen feared deaths would reach 270,000. Deaths already had decimated Collier County's 25,000 herd, and the area's spring calf crop was expected to be only...
Plans for voyaging to the moon are a dime a dozen, but according to Astronomy Professor Jan Schilt of Columbia University, they are all aimed at the wrong moon. Last week he explained why man's first round trip to an extraterrestrial body may be to one of the moons of Mars...
When it came time to return to earth, a 10-lb. push would separate a spaceship from its natural merry-go-round. Free of the little moon, it would have satellite velocity, 3,000 m.p.h. in the case of Deimos, so only a moderate additional push would free it from Martian gravitation and start it on the long voyage home...
...determined to run the Massachusetts Bay colony without her advice. Of course, "a provoking lass she was, [with her] hair black as a wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed...
...invincible," he fell into bed with green-eyed Princess Naryschkine, wife of a Russian nobleman. She bore him a daughter (later legitimized by her marriage to Dumas) shortly after audiences were applauding his ferocious antiseduction drama A Natural Son. Young Dumas' ferocity only caused women to swarm round him. When a young actress said to him, "Feel how my heart's beating. Well, how do you find it?", he only growled, "I find it round...