Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe, dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide)? Do those long controversial "canals" really exist, or are they optical illusions? The 1965 flight of Mariner 4 showed that Mars is pocked by moonlike craters, apparently as a result of meteor bombardment. But the unmanned probe did not determine whether Mars can support anything remotely like earthly life...
Mariner 6's final photographs did not show any signs of life-but JPL scientists had already warned that even at the spacecraft's relatively close distances, vegetation would be all but unobservable. The two Mariners, moreover, were designed only to determine whether Mars could support life. At week's end, investigators were already mulling over two important observations. Mariner 6 had failed to detect any nitrogen -an ingredient of all earthly life -but it found signs of water in the form of ice in the Martian atmosphere or on the surface...
...else was, or could be, involved in my plans. I beg the Soviet Government not to persecute my mother, my son, my wife or my personal secretary. It is bad enough for them already, and it will be worse still, because my earnings were their only means of support. I beg you not to confiscate their possessions and not to deprive them of their accommodation. I swear that they knew nothing at all. I have informed the Soviet embassy in London that I have not the slightest desire to meet any Soviet official. I request you to send instructions...
...supreme playwright, he did not devote the bulk of his efforts to the theatre. He was a physician, but spent most of his time turning out a stream of short stories--a field that paid well and paid quickly, important factors for Chekhov, who had a large family to support. In a life restricted to forty four years by the ravages of tuberculosis, he penned short stories totalling, I believe, close to a thousand. At any rate, he is universally considered Russia's greatest short-story teller, and by many the foremost practitioner of the short story in the world...
...concentrate on its conclusion, though, may be to do an injustice to the rest of the book. For it is constructed very much like an iceberg--in order to support a tiny prominence of prophecy and speculation, the narrative spends most of its time examining the submerged bulk of past history. Besides her other gifts, Doris Lessing, is at all times, the lady novelist--and a good one, too. If her sentences sometimes seem too explicitly diagnostic in an effort to delineate complex emotions, she nonetheless never loses a dark, undercut ting humor. Her cynical view of society's absurdities...