Word: antennaed
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...Bruce, 14, and his two friends were so eager to set up a CB antenna atop his home near Chicago that they failed to notice a nearby power line. When the antenna brushed against the high-voltage wire, Bruce's two friends were electrocuted, and he was burned so severely that doctors at the burn unit of Chicago's Cook County Hospital had to amputate his legs and an arm. But their treatment saved Bruce's life, and now, fitted with prosthetic devices, he is taking golf lessons...
...Princeton Physicist Robert Dicke determined that if the universe indeed began as a fireball filled with intense radiation, a trace of that radiation should still exist and be detectable with a sensitive radio antenna. By a serendipitous coincidence, in the same year Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories were using just such an antenna to listen to radio waves from the Milky Way. They had been puzzled by a faint background noise that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency...
...Robert Dole ordered reporters off the floor, while the delegates cheered. CBS Floor Producer Don Hewitt immediately phoned Dole to protest, but television reporters and their bulky equipment were not back clogging the aisles at full strength for nearly an hour. When NBC Reporter Tom Pettit's earphone antenna was banged and bent by an unidentified flying object during a Wednesday-night Ford demonstration, David Brinkley remarked: "You get ten points for hitting a reporter. There have been conventions in the past where you got 20 points...
...have all set up giant, equipment-laden trailers under the town water tower that functions as an antenna. A couple of dozen reporters flock around Press Secretary Jody Powell and Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan, recording their every word as they conduct a "briefing" alongside the railroad tracks in Plains-even though to date they have provided only the most fleeting glimpses of the inner workings of the post-primary campaign. Afterward, reporters grumble to each other about excessive secrecy and "news management," and file stories soured by bitterness...
Follow-up examination by the giant radar antenna at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, quickly dispelled that notion. The radar data indicated that the landscape was littered with boulders ranging from 3 ft. to 15 ft. in diameter. Despite pressure from biologists anxious to begin Viking's life-seeking experiments, Martin decided that the risks at the second site were too great for the 1,270-lb., three-legged lander; to lose it on landing would leave the billion-dollar Viking mission totally dependent on Viking...