Word: brownish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delivered by midweek to eager scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Although a thick coat of clinging dust prevented immediate detailed observation, geologists could see that several of the rocks were igneous-formed out of molten material like lava. They were also of a lighter hue than the brownish gray Apollo 11 rocks from the Sea of Tranquility-and much larger. The biggest of these "grapefruits," as Conrad had called them, weighed as much as four pounds and were about six inches long and five inches wide. Said a pleased Dan Anderson, curator of the LRL: "Scientists are oohing...
Awesome Views. Shots of the moon taken from Apollo 10 in its 69-mile-high orbit clearly showed that some areas of the moon have a brownish tint, confirming the astronauts' description. There were awesome views of rugged mountains, long canyons and deep craters with white walls glinting starkly in the sunlight. By contrast, the cloud-swirled earth looked warm and hospitable as it was seen rising above the moon's horizon. Shots of alternate landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility gave support to Stafford's observation that they were "very smooth, like wet clay...
...bring World War II to an end. Anai's Georget and Blanche Cardon have long since died, but the memories and memorials of that day in 1944 have not. On the beaches, in the cliffs and dunes and marshes beyond them, linger the grim reminders-rusted guns, brownish-black pillboxes, and endless rows of crosses. TIME Correspondent Benjamin Cate toured the battle areas, talked with the French who still live where so much blood was spilled, and last week sent this report...
More Louis than Loew. The theater, formerly part of the Orpheum chain, had fallen on evil days. Its gaudy decor, a melange of rococo cupids, art nouveau statuary and Buddhist-Byzantine shrines, was shrouded in brownish dust. Decorator Clark Graves painted over most of the Byzantine and the Loew camp, highlighting those motifs which Louis XIV might have allowed in Versailles...
...poppy-laden terrace with pennants flapping overhead and the bustling harbor beyond. To critics today, the painting's brilliant colors seem to mark a historic moment, the "thrusting open of French doors to the whole world of light outside." But the fashion of the 1860s was for brownish landscapes of the Barbizon school; Monet was able to sell his work for only $41. Six years later, his Sunrise: An Impression created a furor in Paris and gave its name to a new school of art, impressionism...