Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...observatory's director, reported what they had seen to astronomical authorities. He had not seen the spots himself, but he ordered a close watch kept on Aristarchus. The moon waned, throwing the crater into cold and darkness, but in late November, two days after the edge of sunlight reached Aristarchus again, Dr. Hall and four other observers saw a reddish area, twelve miles long and 1½ miles wide, inside the rim right where one of the spots had been seen in October...
Front & Center. On Monday, sunlight splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...line of lavishly costumed Indians stretched across the sacred ground of a Utah mesa. In the darkness it faced east where the red morning sun would rise. As the first rays of the new sun fell upon them, the Indians dusted the sunlight over their bodies with eagle feathers and blew on shrill whistles carved of eagle bone...
...smoke lifted quickly from the broad avenues surrounding Saigon's Gia Long palace. In the bright sunlight, the pattern of violence came clear-raw shell holes, the black tongue-traces of flamethrowers, and the fine detail of the coup that overthrew and killed President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...seven months, the satellite Explorer XVI orbited earth, inviting meteoroids to hit the instruments that encrusted most of its surface. There were cylinders of thin sheet metal containing helium gas that escaped when they were punctured by a meteoroid. There were instruments that gave an electrical signal when sunlight showed through a puncture hole in plastic film. There were also sensitive microphones that registered 15,000 occasions when something hit them hard enough to make them vibrate...