Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon by the earth may well have produced an atmosphere much earlier in the earth's history than anyone had heretofore believed- and led to the evolution of life itself. Terrestrial gravity had an even more spectacular effect on the newly arrived moon. In addition to tidal heating and volcanic activity on the moon as it approached perigee, great chunks may well have been torn from the lunar surface-only to fall back onto the moon near apogee, when the earth's gravitational force was lessened. This recurring bombardment could account for the moon's pock-marked...
Love alone does not govern the play, for it is also a drama about passion as a prime element, a life force that no more obeys the laws of convention than a tidal wave heeds the shore line. The heroine (Maureen Stapleton) is a kind of common woman's Phaedra. Just as the Greek Queen went mad in her passion for her stepson Hippolytus, this Sicilian widow near New Orleans goes mad in her passion for the memory of her dead truck-driver husband. When a young sailor lights the fires of love in the eyes...
...Triton to make it sink to its present orbit will continue to affect the larger moon at an accelerating rate. Tides raised on Neptune's surface by the pull of Triton's gravity exert a drag on the satellite that causes its orbit to decay. The tidal action on Neptune also creates friction that dissipates energy from the rotating Neptune-Triton system, further depressing Triton's orbit...
...only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to "Princess" Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a "comparatively quiet family affair" and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906-have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding...
Since then, a great tidal wash of malice and misunderstanding has oscillated in the Atlantic. Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide. It is a pointed little farce, and as cultural anthropology it offers a thoughtful thesis to such British and American minds as can rise above the trousers-pants hassle. The Englishman in the U.S., it demonstrates, is no longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect...