Word: granular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark spot ahead is a distant mountain-or a matchbook cover on the snow 50 ft. away. When he looks down he may see his feet but not the surface that he stands on. And when the winds finally sweep the milky film away, they can drive the granular snow so furiously across the continent's face that static electricity is generated, and phantom flames dance eerily in the blinding drift...
...hospital bed, his mind awash with memories of the sea he had always loved. A few shreds of his corpse are sent to the laboratory, where, under the microscope, "an unfamiliar aspect of Palabaud would be revealed: patterns of polygonal cells, sections of vessels appearing as small circles, granular clusters, trusses of tangled fibrils. And that would be the last aspect left to mankind of the timid vagabond of islands and oceans.'' Mortal beauty and even mortal existence, Author Reverzy suggests, are never more than a bright buckler for mortal decay. But a courageous death, a first...
North Conway, Cranmore 7-15, less than I frozen granular. Poor to good...
...next time you're forced off the sidewalk by a Hannes Schneider pair of skis, or you bumble into a conversation about granular on the Nosedive, don't be misled. It's just ski jargon for what you too have discussed. Who does what, where, when, and how much...
Last week the Ardmore meteorite was carefully analyzed. It proved to be a genuine granular hexahedrite, and there is enough of the odd stuff for all sorts of experiments, which may prove the La Paz contention: that the meteorite could never have been formed from the molten inside of a defunct planet. It may have been formed in some other way deep in interstellar space, or in another planetary system around some foreign star...