Soon, we got up, walked around the west side — toward the meat rack — the gay part of the park. There, it was as if someone had hung a line of marionettes on the railing: the lonesome young homosexuals, legs dangling, looking, waiting for that one-night's sexual connection...

Shih-shou county, where the dike broke, had further epidemics in summer which caused innumerable deaths. Chien-li and Sung-tze counties likewise suffered from epidemics and serious famine.

It may peradventure be thought there was never such a time nor condition of warre as this; and I believe it was never generally so, over all the world; but there are many places, where they live so now.

By 1960, NASA had sketched the outline for a decadelong effort toward unmanned and then manned lunar explorations, as well as sending spacecraft to Venus and Mars.