Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Dec. 17 account of the proposal of the name shake for a unit of time equal to one-hundredth microsecond was interesting, but tended to leave the impression that such minute intervals are a very recent phenomenon in physics . . . During the war, in order to avoid using the somewhat revealing word "microsecond" in telephone conversations, it was dubbed the "dollar" in one section of the Manhattan project, so that what is now a shake became a "penny." The "jiffy" has been used for one ten-thousandth of a shake and probably for other short intervals...
Hanford separates plutonium from spent uranium, and this must be done by remote control, to avoid death by radiation. Here is a nightmarish glimpse of a future world of machines. The General Electric Co. people who run the plant have developed remote-control apparatus until it can do almost everything. It can knock down, service and put together whole production units that have grown fiercely radioactive. Sometimes the human operatives watch the job through three feet of special glass, sometimes through periscopes, sometimes by means of stereoscopic television. In the latter case, they can work from miles away; the radiation...
...Egypt most wants is a male heir. His first Queen and childhood sweetheart, Farida, failed him: after three children, all girls, he divorced her. Last spring, Farouk married a teen-age cutie, 18-year-old Narriman Sadek, a commoner. Last week the Cairo newspaper Al Balagh, talking coyly to avoid censorship, announced that "the happy event anxiously awaited by the people of Egypt is expected to take place towards the end of this month or early in February...
...four U.S. flyers forced down in Hungary last month (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) as evidence that the U.S. is trying to "subvert" Communist Eastern Europe. Bouncing in his seat, he waved his arms so wildly that British Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd had to keep ducking his head to avoid being...
Over the wires to the editors of his 18 daily and Sunday papers, Bill Hearst sent orders for more local stories and editorials, more straight news reporting ("Avoid bias or lack of objectivity"). Some papers started using a more conservative makeup. Even the familiar "must-go"editorials, once the staple of every Hearst editorial page, have been reduced...