Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...veil is coming off. Last week NASA's Magellan spacecraft transmitted the most detailed pictures ever made of Earth's next-door neighbor. The radar images revealed a tortured topography with fault-like cracks in surprisingly regular patterns, craters as big as greater Los Angeles and volcanic mountains flanked by congealed rivers of lava at least 320 km (200 miles) long. Says James Head III, a Brown University geologist and member of the Magellan imaging team: "It's a revolutionary new view of Venus...
...Sept. 22, Le, 61, and his wife Tuyet Thi Dangtran, 52, were gunned down in the driveway of their house in suburban Bailey's Crossroads, Va. A neighbor said he heard several shots and saw a car speeding away. It was the couple's 10th wedding anniversary...
...children. As we ran, I learned from my mother that the Justices had divorced the previous spring and Marina now lived alone, except for a tenant on the top floor of the mansion and frequent visits from her children. So we were only able to get her next-door neighbor, George, and her neighbor from across the street, who were about to carpool to work together...
...someone following her, but saw Mr. Montgomery slow down as he came to her. I thought he was going to pick her up," her second neighbor said...
...more general sense, too, Heaney's language is like his landscape. His sentences are earthy and declarative; they have the tones of a farmer talking to his neighbor across the stone fence. The vocabulary is stoutly native, rich with Anglo-Saxon nouns whose vowels are strong and round as the hillsides. And, once again the archaeologist, Heaney mines the forgotten caves of English to exhume fine words in their last stage of decay, words like bleb and rath and coign, words shaped in the mouths of Beowulf and Cuchulain...