Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drawing a bead on the moon is something like shooting a duck from a spinning merry-go-round, using a bullet that takes two days to creep near its target. The moon has its own motion; it speeds around the earth on a somewhat elliptical orbit at 2,300 m.p.h.*Even more disturbing to the moon-marksmen is the rotation of the earth. In every minute, the earth rotates enough to make a 1,000-mile difference in the rocket's position when and if it reaches the moon's orbit...
...straight and hard was the Supreme Court line that segregationists cried (incorrectly) in outrage that it had decided questions that were not before it. But in moving beyond the specifics of the Little Rock case to set the legal standard for the "massive resistance" round of the desegregation battle, the Supreme Court was clearly moving strongly to forestall the sort of trouble that comes with doubt and confusion...
Sputnik Horrors. As his sculpture moved from the flat plane into the round, Arp found himself creating biomorphic objects that ambiguously suggested a cross between scrambled genes and objects in nature. As a practicing poet, Arp gave them titles aimed to launch the spectator on a whirl of free associations...
...came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone...
...rounD) moon,how do you(rouNd er than roUnd)float; who lly &(rOunder than) go :ldenly( Round...