Examples
“Thus ended von Ribbentrop's first contact with the enemy.”
“It was there that the first contact was made with the infantry of Army Group B, a motorized patrol from 1st Company, 17th Infantry Regiment.”
“My first contact with that sort of thing was when I went to the Battle Creek Sanitarium to investigate hydrotherapy, and found myself in a nest of Seventh-day Adventists.”
The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation
“Her experiences with the Elaigar, from the first contact in Melna Park on, were put in perspective, had become a thing of the past, no longer to concern her.”
“The facility supports a large operation specialist base, and frequently is the first contact nonallied worlds have with the Federation.”
“The first contact between Australia and Korea occurred in the mid-1880s.”
DFAT Speech: The ROK - An Emerging Economic and Strategic Power
“Dating system in the realm of Khlaru just prior to Karsid first contact was a triple cycle of reign dates: the Arastphrid System common to the Gharhuil Continent in that era, and a longer cycle based on the variable star Algol.”
“Squadrons 501 and 253 made first contact and at 18,000 ft. charged headlong into one hundred and twenty bombers, breaking up the formation and shooting down two Dorniers without the loss of an aircraft.”
“It seemed so natural to have your first kiss in a dark cinema on a December afternoon that I just closed my eyes and let myself enjoy the sensation of everything falling into place, from the first contact of our tongues to his clumsy attempts to unhook my bra, a pale blue Huit that Astrid had bought me at Galeries Lafayette.”
“After a moment he replied, Karsid first contact with the rulers of Thersach—the most warlike and socially flexible of the industrial federations—correlates to Earthdate O.R.”
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
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Criswell Predicts
Words describing a future that may or may not be entirely grounded in reality. Not to be used for predictive purposes. I do not have the gift of premonition. In fact, all these ideas come from popu...
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