Word: outer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Most Rev. Helder Câmara, LL.D., Archbishop of Recife, Brazil. Luis W. Alvarez, S.D. Always alert for innovative applications of nuclear physics, he used neutrinos from outer space to search for undiscovered tombs in the Egyptian pyramids...
...Came From Outer Space at 4, 7, and 10; Creature from the Black Lagoon...
...Days, Ladies Days, Bartender Days, Cab Driver Days, Gourmet Days, and Name's the Same Days (everyone with the same name as a member of the team gets in for free). He was the first to install an explosive Scoreboard, stage milking contests and have mock invasions from outer space. His most memorable stunt was sending a midget to pinch hit for St. Louis wearing the number1/8 (he walked on four pitches). Veeck's credo: "We are in the entertainment business. The important thing is the relationship between the fan and the game...
...encouragement, his companies developed the laser, communications satellites and a dizzying array of esoteric weaponry. As one senior Pentagon intelligence officer puts it, "He was something of a genius in understanding far-out concepts of electro-optical systems, infra-red sensors and other sophisticated gear from undersea to outer space...
...stretch of the 600-mile San Andreas Fault, a deep fracture that runs from below the Mexican border to about 100 miles north of San Francisco, where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The fault is actually the boundary of two tectonic plates, huge sections of the earth's outer layer that are sliding in opposite directions. A western sliver of California, on the Pacific plate, is moving northwest. The remainder of the state is being carried by the North American plate toward the southeast...