Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blind Spot. In Jersey City, Fortuneteller Rachel Lilly called up the police, asked them to help her find her car and her crystal ball...
Separated by broad cobbled squares and courtyards are the ornate buildings of the Czars, executed, like the history of Russia itself, in a variety of styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Neoclassic. On the tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...
SEAC is completely electronic, with no mechanical parts. Instead of the thousands of expensive and bulky vacuum tubes that serve as "brain cells" in other large computers, SEAC does most of its thinking with 12,800 germanium crystal diodes-modern descendants of the "crystals" in oldtime radios. The diodes are small, trouble-free and quick, allowing the electric pulses of the machine's thinking processes to circulate at the rate of one million per second...
Last week the television industry looked up from its crystal ball and spoke of the future in big, bold terms...
...next morning at 7 he was breakfasting in the Jefferson's mirror-hung Crystal Room with the particular segment of the 35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...