Word: originated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, microwave emissions from a comet. Above the earth's obscuring blanket of air unmanned satellites-perhaps even Skylab's sophisticated observatory-may make the most fruitful observations of all. All the observations will be aimed at determining the structure of the comet and its origin-probably beyond the planet Pluto, where billions of comet-like objects are believed to be orbiting as remnants from the solar system's creation...
After the complex figuring was completed, he informed me that my worst month was clearly May (April, August and October were good ones). In my 32nd year, he went on, I will marry a 24-year-old woman of non-American origin, and we will have five children. Carefully I turned the conversation to war and politics. Well, he said, the war will lose its intensity in May and June, and the Cambodians will win. At that point, the ground trembled; B-52s were pounding the area around Phnom-Penh...
Every year at this time a huge hot air mass rises out of Princeton, N.J. It has a curious origin. It's not one of Mother Nature's little whims brought on by margarine commercials and you'll never see it on any weather map. This annual phenomenon originates in the delusions of Princeton's lightweight oarsmen, a group of pseudo-masochists who secretly harbor the belief that someday they will beat Harvard in lightweight crew...
...nation that takes economic equality for granted has developed a small class of discreet, quiet-living millionaires (2,000 at last count). Yet its 1,300,000 Sephardic Jews, who emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East, live in relative hardship compared with the Ashkenazic Jews of European origin...
...dangerously overcrowded New York City in the year 2022, where there are nearly 200 murders a day and only a rich man can afford cigarettes. The plot of this intermittently interesting science-fiction thriller is about a cop (Charlton Heston) whose investigations lead him to the true and appalling origin of soylent green. The story is rather less notable than the fact that its alarming social prognosis has already become a cliché. It is all too likely that such ecological chaos may occur, but there have been so many melodramatic warnings about it in essays and speculative fantasies such...