Word: blip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta airport a new system designed to dispel such confusion began advanced tests last week. Arriving airplanes make their appearances on the Atlanta scope as the usual blips, which look very much alike, but planes participating in the test carry electronic transponders that send back a coded signal along with their radar echoes. A computer built into the intricate electronic system provides information for a luminous square of letters and numerals that appears on the scope beside the blip. Called an "alphanumeric data block," it identifies the airplane and gives its altitude, which the transponder gets automatically from the plane...
Guided by the computer, which can track simultaneously any reasonable number of airplanes, the alphanumeric block follows the blip through all its turns and circlings. As the plane slants down for a landing, the blocks report its changes of altitude. Even when the scope is swarming with blips there is practically no danger that they will get mixed up, and the controller can always tell from the altitude figures whether planes that are approaching each other are actually in danger of colliding...
...spectacular for months; the sharp-eyed, long-range radars of the North American Air Defense Command watched the launch of the Voskhod II and followed it on orbit. Forewarned that a hole might open in the side of the spacecraft, changing its reflectivity, the radar men watched the reflected blip with special attention. As expected, they saw an irregularity develop in the space ship's electronic "signature." That was the instant when Leonov opened the hatch...
...Eastern plane had plunged toward the ocean eight miles off Jones Beach. It blew up in an orange ball of fire at water level, went to the bottom 75 ft. below. At Kennedy Airport the radar operators sounded the alarm the instant they realized that the blip representing Flight 663 had disappeared from their screens...
...always, coeds search for their Sam-sex appeal plus magnetism-and boys prowl for bugs. A sexy bug is also a tough (or tuff), tough head, tough fox or stone fox. If the boy is a blip, he is said to be whipped by an ugly stick. But if boy and girl are stoked about each other, they mouse or scarf, which is the same as playing huggy-bear, smacky lips, smash-mouth and kissy face...