Word: stellar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor of physics at the University of California and is an eminent theoretical astrophysicist who has made major contributions to the understanding of stellar evolution...
Hull can also be stellar in a Keller. "One day after a White Sox game," he says, "a bunch of us were sitting around a Michigan Avenue bar having a few, when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles...
...light-years away. And because presumably no spaceship-or any matter-can travel at or beyond the velocity of light, which is the universal speed limit according to the Einstein theory of relativity, it would take considerably longer than 4.3 light-years to reach the earth from its nearest stellar neighbor. At the 17,500 m.p.h. that astronauts travel, it would take nearly 170,000 years...
...accidents of nature and wealth, many of the most interesting stellar objects are inaccessible to the earth's most powerful optical telescopes. The objects are visible only from the Southern Hemisphere; the biggest telescopes, such as the massive 200-inch instrument atop California's Mount Palomar, are located in the Northern Hemisphere...
...symphony orchestra, the tuba is like a ship's engine: it produces a rumble that is hardly noticeable when it is there, but is sorely missed when it is not. Thus it was a serious matter when the San Francisco Symphony learned recently that its stellar tuba player, Ronald Bishop, had been lured away by the Cleveland Orchestra. In its search for a replacement, the San Francisco Symphony rejected all the local candidates. That sent the Musicians' Union into a huff, and the orchestra had to take the union to court before it could carry its talent hunt...