Word: strays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watched your thoughts stray into dreams When you're not satisfied...
...remind you of the Russian occupation of the southern half of Sakhalin Island (north of Japan) and the Kuril Islands (northeast of Japan)? These territories, formerly owned and populated by Japan, are now exclusively occupied by the Soviet Union. Japanese fishing boats that stray too close to these islands are often seized or fired upon. To the best of my knowledge, both areas are sealed off from normal tourist or business travelers...
...hotel is a vast rococo establishment. In the offseason, the staff tends to outnumber the 20-odd guests. Most of these regulars are women of 60 or more-a couple of Americans, a few English, a stray Parisian countess or two. Twice a day they gather in the Winter Dining Room, a smallish chamber in the hotel basement, which, despite lavish importation of daffodils and red tulips, is a frightful miniature of desolation. All guests have their own tables; there is almost no talk. The Nabokovs have a cook and eat here only when they have visitors...
...been no rendezvous in lunar orbit, no testing of the LM's landing radar or of the entire communications system at lunar distances. In addition, NASA scientists are recalculating trajectories and orbital paths to take into account irregularities in the lunar gravitational field that caused Apollo 8 to stray from its course. "We looked at all these things," says Low, "and we decided that we had to fly once more before we take the big step of landing on the moon...
...that life must be preserved if at all possible, human transplants are a legitimate life-saving tool. The meeting dealt similarly with a rather improbable dilemma involving dietary law. Lost in the desert and near starvation, a devout Moslem is suddenly confronted by two bits of unexpected sustenance: a stray piece of pork and some nonforbidden food in the hands of a traveler. Which should he take? He could not snatch the other man's food, the conference agreed, because that might cause the traveler's death. On the other hand, since it was the Moslem...