Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Call it an unexpected bonus from the cold war. During top-secret monitoring of the dark side of the moon 25 years ago, U.S. scientists discovered what they feared might be clandestine Soviet nuclear tests in space. Spy satellites picked up massive bursts of gamma rays similar to those released during the explosion of atom bombs. But these bursters, as gamma-ray scientists began to call them, did not match any known pattern. They were brief, lasting from only a fraction of a second up to 100 seconds. Civilian experts were called in to study the data, and the Soviet...
...last guests left the open house, an orange moon rose above the seven side-by-side graves in East Lawn Cemetery next to the hospital. "Wherever they are," said one of the departing guests, "I hope we made them proud...
...geography could shed light on several geologic mysteries. Researchers have not yet agreed on the origin of the Pacific Ocean. Some have suggested it was formed when Siberia split off from North America; a few even postulated it was created by the moon calving off from the earth long ago. In the new scenario, the ocean would have been created when Antarctica and Australia migrated away from North America 570 million years...
...cummings wrote) could "ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat ." The unspoken text was this: the nation had recovered its immunity, its divine favor, or anyway its gift for doing things right. The victory was as satisfying as anything Americans have done together since landing on the moon...
...self-doubt and persistent social problems, gradually being overshadowed by the economic might of Japan and Germany. Nowhere does condescension toward Americans achieve the exquisite and insufferable effects that it accomplishes in France. In the mid-1960s, some Frenchmen wondered if the Americans would ever make it to the moon if they insisted on calculating distances in feet and inches. Americans were considered "les grands enfants," powerful but childish. Not long ago, a University of Tours sociologist named Jean-Pierre Sergent argued that Americans would not go to war in the Persian Gulf because they cannot face reality, only simulated...