Word: solar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must to all, death comes tomorrow to tired, harried, war-haunted Mother Earth. Sixth in size of the solar system's nine whirling satellites, fourth in distance from the sun,* Earth alone has Man, was from the start haijed as planet most likely to fail...
...serenely beautiful evening star, the planet Venus, was not always a well-behaved heavenly body. According to "Universal Scholar" Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, in his forthcoming book Worlds in Collision (soon to be published by Macmillan), Venus was once the bad girl of the solar system. She frightened the whole human race into a "collective amnesia" which kept her misbehavior from being recorded...
...years the comet kept the solar system in an uproar, charging among the peaceful planets like *a bull at a Sunday-school picnic. It zoomed past the earth again when the Children of Israel, commanded by Joshua, were tangling with the Amorites. Said Joshua: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies." (Joshua...
...Shouldn't I?" The end came after one minute and 44 seconds of the tenth round, when a hard left to the solar plexus left Mills standing helpless. Maxim followed with a pistonlike left and a short right to the head; Mills went down and sank back on his haunches like a bemused Buddha, wiping his nose as the referee counted...
...bigger & better version caught up with it. The space ship's space men were not dead at all. Fifteen of them had been captured alive. They would not, or could not talk (as earthbound creatures know talking), but one of them obligingly drew a map of the solar system and pointed to the second planet from the sun. Thereupon, at the suggestion of a smart Earthling, all the prisoners were hastily placed in a pressurized chamber filled with carbon dioxide to simulate the atmosphere of Venus...