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  • It has become other things, too and, I guess, excepted world-around as -- whatever your faith is, there's a certain feeling at Christmas.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2001 2001

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  • Supposedly another of Fuller's: 'World-around is a term coined by Fuller to replace worldwide... The terms sunsight and sunclipse are other neologisms, according to Allegra Fuller Snyder collectively coined by the Fuller family, replacing sunrise and sunset in order to overturn the geocentric bias of most pre-Copernican celestial mechanics... Fuller also... coined the term (but did not invent) tensegrity.'

    June 3, 2008