Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respond eagerly to the news that he would be stripped of his job as chairman of the powerful building and zoning committee and of his ceremonial post as president pro tern of the council. "That's when I knew it would be war," Vrdolyak told the Chicago Sun-Times. "There's the mayor, the new guy on the block, telling me I'm out. So I say to myself, I thought this guy was just mayor. But he thinks he's king. So, did I want to fight? No. Do I know...
...youthful Frenchmen were careering jubilantly through the streets of Paris, trailing red flags from their cars and chanting, "We've won! We've won!" Standing in the chill spring rain at the Place de la Bastille, others laughingly shouted, "Mitterrand, give us some sun!" Even as a joke, that demand was a measure of the Impossible hopes raised by French President François Mitterrand's election victory two years ago, a historic occasion that brought to an end 23 years of conservative rule...
...ancient stargazers, comets (from the Greek for hairy star) were signs of heavenly displeasure. Actually, they are stray bits of debris, largely ice and dust, left over from the formation of the sun and its family of planets nearly 5 billion years ago. Skywatchers around the world got a rare chance last week to view such a dirty celestial snowball close up, at least by astronomical standards. The surprise visitor from deep space swept to within 2.9 million miles of earth, the nearest approach by a comet in two centuries...
Even sharp-eyed amateurs with small telescopes or binoculars could make out the comet's bright central mass, or nucleus, and its long gaseous tail. Astronomers concluded that I-A-A was probably not a "virginal" comet, meaning one that has never before swept around the sun. Its lack of brilliance suggested that the sun had boiled off some of its icy material on earlier journeys, hundreds or even thousands of years...
...great embarrassments in Roman Catholic Church history is the condemnation of Italian Astronomer Galileo Galilei by the Holy Office as "vehemently suspected of heresy." His crime: writing in defense of Copernicus' hypothesis that the earth revolves around the sun. In 1616 the Holy Office had proclaimed the Copernican view "formally heretical, inasmuch as it expressly contradicts the doctrines of Holy Scripture in many places, both according to their literal meaning" and the common interpretation of the early Church Fathers. The head of the Holy Office, which was responsible for seeking out heresy, ordered Galileo not to disseminate his views...