Word: blip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a radius of+5." This language is translated by a large computer that has been fed a set of cards punched with the APT grammar and vocabulary, thus has "learned" APT language. After it has read the APT instructions, the computer tests its solution with a blip of light that appears on a screen and goes through the motions that the machine tool is expected to make. If no corrections are needed, the computer spits out a tape carrying the orders translated into number language. The tape is fed into the tool's mechanical brain, and without further...
...ground, a mighty communications system sparked into action. CAA stations, military bases and airline offices monitored Obie's radio. In the dimly lit control room at Fat Chance, a Texas-based air defense radar station, trackers picked up Obie's blip on their screen. Like a tiny translucent pearl on green glass, the blip moved toward its target, rolling to one side, then to another, now erratic, now steady, minute by minute, guided all the while by Fat Chance...
...what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents any U.S. plane from actually proceeding to a Russian target without personal orders from the President-Russia found...
...instrumentation unknown anywhere else in the free world. The solo tone of an old-fashioned foghorn is overcome by the shriek of liquid oxygen as it pours under high pressure through valves and pipes. Clanging chords of hammer on steel, the humming sostenuto of machinery, the blip-blip rhythms bouncing onto radar screens from a network of grotesque antennas-the counterpoint races on in time to a thousand clocks, paced by thousands of hard-hatted men, their ears attuned, their hands ready at buttons, keys, switches, knobs, cranks and valves, their eyes darting from tube to dial, their pulses shooting...
...Blip blop bleeeeep," returned the voice over the CBS radio-TV "simulcast" from 6,000 miles away. "Who wants me to week wawk come home bureeek...