Word: chaff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind during the show, for it will only evoke sympathy for Mr. Faulkner and antipathy for Jerry Wald, of Peyton Place fame, who lovingly identified Faulkner with his film, but who cunningly ripped up The Hamlet into many pieces, tossed them into the air, and caught mostly his own chaff...
...capsule and pilot can survive this crisis, the capsule will slow to something like the speed of sound without much further trouble. An automatic mechanism will break out a small, tough drogue parachute, simultaneously releasing a puff of chaff (reflecting metal foil) to help watching radars to pick up the capsule's track. When its speed has decreased sufficiently, a large landing parachute will unfold. A big rubberized "doughnut" will inflate around the capsule's base, designed to cushion the impact if it drops on land, or to keep it afloat if it falls in the ocean...
...that the trucks had to race to keep up with them, by day's end had harvested 61,340 bu. to set the world's record. Hatless in the 90° heat, Krylov ignored the official interpreter, barraged Campbell with questions in English. Both Russians tested the chaff spewed from the combines for any wheat kernels that might have been missed, rode the combines, fingered the dirt and the grain, expressed admiration for U.S. conservation methods. When told that Tom Campbell's fields yielded more than 40 bu. an acre from 20 Ibs. of seed, they seemed...
...false federation they established to stand against the Syrian-Egyptian union will be blown away by winds like chaff," shouted Nasser. "Dear brothers, you know these people are agents of imperialism and as such their power is but a short-lived thing...
Next step is to devise equipment that will cope in some way with the enemy's latest dodges. About the oldest passive electronic defense is "chaff"* strips of aluminum foil tossed from an airplane to give a reflection that an enemy radar mistakes for another airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...