Word: sunburned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day the electrician and the mother--as well as other townspeople--try to tell their neighbors about the amazing occurence. Naturally, no one believes them, and all they can offer as proof is a slight sunburn induced by the rays from the spaceships...
...created a wellspring of voter support and vaulted him into the state legislature in 1972. Beard used a few radio spots-written by himself #151;but mainly he walked around shaking hands and displaying homemade campaign signs. He stumped Rhode Island's crowded beaches so diligently that sunburn sidelined him for a few days. "I'm nobody's man but the people's," Beard would say, proclaiming his honesty, his solidarity with his fellow workingman and his interest in the plight of the elderly...
Last week the government, using an $8.7 million bond that Court Line had posted, pushed a major effort-dubbed Operation Sunburn by some jokesters -to bring Court Line's stranded tourists home. And over Tory jeers that the Court Line affair proved Labor's ineptitude in dealing with industry, the government unfurled further nationalization plans: to take control of all British ports and their ancillary operations and to nationalize the country's two largest aircraft makers, British Aircraft and Hawker Siddeley. So far, though, no plans have been announced to nationalize the tourist industry...
Loyal Park's varsity baseball squad returned from a week in the warmer climes of Georgia and Florida with some sunburn, eight victories, three losses, several key injuries, a powerful batting order, a few pitching surprises and a few disappointments, a designated hitter, 89 runs scored, 43 scored-against, an unofficial win against a Montreal Expos farm club, some promising rookies and optimism about the upcoming season which opens today against GBL rival Boston College...
...Sagan, it is scientifically possible for Mars to harbor "macro-organisms" the size of polar bears, who crunch rocks for water, sport silicon skins to protect themselves against deadly sunburn, and hibernate for thousands of years at a stretch. Sagan also contemplates astro-engineered civilizations so far advanced that their accomplishments would seem to us "indistinguishable from magic." He can easily imagine intergalactic, rapid-transit routes where "an object that plunges down a rotating black hole may re-emerge elsewhere and elsewhen-in another place and another time...