Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them with a wealth of data and lunar material. Last week, as they completed no fewer than 152 preliminary tests on 55 lbs. of lunar rocks and dust, they made several more interesting discoveries. Geochemist Oliver Schaeffer, seeking to determine what gases are expelled from the sun as solar wind, heated a pinch of moon dust to 3,000° F. Analyzing the escaping gases, he found that the lunar surface had absorbed considerable helium and hydrogen from the sun. But he also noted surprisingly large amounts of such rare gases as argon, neon, krypton and xenon, which suggested that...
...Greek mysticism. In the evening light, the sky takes on blues and oranges and greens, the sea becomes deeper, the moon blazes in the sky. But neither the place nor the rhetOTIC now seemed equal to the distant crises that these people had tried to discuss all week. The wind was rising as Margaret Mead stumped forward in a flowered hat, a long black cape and blue sneakers. Reading out the Declaration of Delos VII ("there is a basic distortion of values in society's failure to allocate resources for the improvement of human settlements"), she looked like...
...Athens in Antarctica might be easier to explain than the riddling ruins on Easter Island. More than 2,000 miles from the coast of Chile, still farther from the reefs of Tahiti, Easter is the world's most isolated islet: a tiny (45.5 sq. mi.) blob of wind-scraped lava jutting from the gray Pacific like a roost for passing frigate birds. Yet on its stony surface, dozens of enormous statues, known in local dialect as modi, stand and stare. Some of them rear up to a height of 40 feet; many of them wear a subtle expression that...
...every level the diggers found modi stacked upon modi-Maziere believes that at least as many statues lie in the grainy earth of Easter Island as stand upon it. Some of the buried figures are the most massive yet found, and not a few preserve nuances of modeling that wind and weather have long since stripped from the giants on the headland. Unfortunately, before Maziere could complete his excavations, the island's exasperated authorities rescinded his permission to excavate...
...poignance derives not from what they say but from what they don't say. Miss Tucci and Bedford handle this scene beautifully --in both inflection and timing; and Bedford is most touching in his exit speech about the life-sharing quality of a dead tree swaying in the wind. What incredible mastery Checkhov shows here...