Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Watching through binoculars, they radioed instructions as their colleagues gingerly lowered archaeologists on ropes toward the black mouths of caves part way down the cliff. Says Aharoni: "It was like trying to put thread into a needle blindfolded while someone directs you over the telephone."
First Sighting. The most important component of the space watch went into operation about six months ago with the construction of "Dark Fence," a kind of radar trip wire stretching across the width of the U.S. Designed by the Naval Research Laboratory to keep track of satellites whose radios are...
It took two weeks for Dark Fence's scientists to check back through their taped observations, and to discover that the mysterious satellite had first showed up on Aug. 15. The Air Force surveillance center also checked its records to provide a list of everything else that was circling...
"It is many years since I rode horseback through field and wood or performed modest soldierly duties," wrote Switzerland's famed, 73-year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the Christian Century. "Climbing uphill no longer tempts me. And even my work pace at the desk has become...
The theologians of that peaceful, optimistic era, says he, were a surprisingly anxious lot. "Serenity is not the strongest impression we gain from their writings . . . We have lived through harder times, have endured worse things than they did, and we are thereby, strangely enough, made more free."