Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boats, hung with bunting, sailed out between the piers. On the leading boat stood the statue of the Virgin, one foot holding down the head of a sea serpent, above the inscription: "Tu es Virgo Maria, portus sahitis, marls stella" (Thou art the Virgin Mary, haven of safety, star of the sea). Catholic fishermen sailed their craft daringly, crashing the gunwales under the foam to prove to the leftist onlookers that with the Madonna in the leading boat nothing could happen to them...
...chief varmint of all, as Jake saw it, was a brash little guy with a quick trigger finger. His name was Bobby Riggs, twice world's professional tennis champion, and he was always yammering that Bobby Riggs was the world's greatest tennis star. Jake guessed he would have to go gunning for Bobby some...
...fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...
...brilliant red star Antares (450 times the diameter of the sun) in the constellation of Scorpio is a "double" star. Antares has a comparatively faint blue "companion" which is so close that it is almost impossible to photograph by itself. Irregularities in the earth's atmosphere make the images of the two stars dance around, forming "tremor discs" of light which overlap on the photographic plate during a long exposure...
What was iron doing in cold space many million miles away from the nearest star? Struve concluded that both stars, Antares and Companion, must be surrounded by a vast swarm, of meteors, like the iron-nickel meteors which bombard the earth. Apparently they shoot through an enormous region 50,000 times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...