Word: orbitings
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...minutes passed, all that had been small and bitter in my heart began to leave my heart. I became part of a circular stream-oh, was this the meaning of what we were doing: to become aware that one is part of a movement in an orbit? Was this, perhaps, all confusion's end? And the minutes dissolved, and time itself stood still, and this was the center of the universe...
Huang is a virtual prisoner today because of the skills he has acquired in the United States. Away from his home for over seven years, he has been with his wife for only three months during this period. She is now in Hong Kong outside the Communist orbit, but Huang has little hope of cutting through the tangle of statutes which separate them. He has lived the last two years, and perhaps will live his whole life fighting to rejoin his wife and family. So far, he has accomplished nothing...
...much to cut off the arms France extends to her allies." In the press, Maurice Schumann, longtime Quai d'Orsay lieutenant of Robert Schuman, launched a series of articles accusing Mendèes of "isolating" France and thus paving the way toward a disastrous slide into the Communist orbit. The Communist negotiators, Mendes retorted, "will recognize specifically, if they should be tempted to forget it, that every attempt to disassociate France from its allies and its friends will come up against an irrevocable reply that it cannot be accepted...
Arbenz is out. This week Guatemala, after four years of skidding toward the Soviet orbit and ten days of bombing and strafing by anti-Communist rebel invaders, found its President's Marxism and his Communist kibitzers too much. Top army officers forced him to quit, and took power with a junta of three colonels...
...unmanned satellite on an earth-circling orbit...