Word: outer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legacy with former Samoan Governor H. Rex Lee as rain beat against the roof of the veranda. "Ego gratification and upward mobility, America's gifts to Micronesia, have changed the Pacific of Maugham and Robert Louis Stevenson," says DeVoss. "A $500,000 bridge is planned to link two outer Samoan islands I once swam between four years ago. Still, no change can dull the macaroon scent of drying copra or the taste of raw tuna...
...wordly visitors. The expert, which his amazing conjectural powers, has a hunch that this tune (now played incessantly on Boston radio stations) is a musical "hello" from the aliens. He convinces his colleagues at an international UFO conference to support a project to send the four-note tune into outer space via radio telescope...
...show up on radar screens [Nov. 28]. It could be made to appear as big as a destroyer on radar screens by simply wrapping a roll of aluminum foil around each of those beautifully crafted hull points used only for aesthetic purposes. The foil could be laid beneath the outer covering of reed to preserve the "purist" intent of Tigris...
...glass-and-aluminum skyscraper is the world's eighth tallest, soaring 915 ft. It is topped by a thrusting 130-ft. wedge angled at 45° to catch sun and moon and every passing eye. Inside, the 59-story building looks as if it might have landed from outer space. Its vital functions are controlled by a battery of electronic mechanisms that, among other things, wash the air and launder the noise of the city with "white sound," an almost imperceptible brrr...
...mechanism-can generate the tremendous potential (about 100 million volts) necessary to produce lightning or why the bolt follows so jagged a path. The answers may well lie in the action of cosmic rays, which are actually protons or other atomic particles that continuously plunge toward the earth from outer space...