Word: detectible
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...million-a-year operation under Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, now has 200 civilian contractors at work exploring other anti-missile possibilities. Among them: spraying the path of a missile with pellets to damage the warhead, or putting into orbit anti-missile stations that would detect and kill ICBMs as they leave their launching pads...
...predecessor, who has always been ill at ease in the House of Commons, Maudling is a born debater with a stylish turn of phrase and a quick wit. Once, when a Labor critic jeered at the government's decision to cut beer taxes, Maudling shot back: "I detect one or two notes of acidity, no doubt arising from mixing cheap bitter and sour grapes." Maudling, whose own tastes run to dry martinis and dancing barefoot on the Riviera with his pretty wife, has an undeserved reputation for indolence. According to a malicious rhyme that once made the rounds...
Most conventional gyros navigate in much the same manner, but Minneman is sure that proton gyroscopes can be made far more sensitive, able to detect the tiny changes of direction that are all-important in missile and space work. Their lack of mechanical moving parts should free them from nearly all tendency to drift, making them valuable for guiding nuclear submarines, which cruise under water for weeks without getting a fix on the sun or the stars. They should be cheaper too. There are elegant instruments on the market, says Minneman, that cost $20,000. He is sure that...
Both U.S. and British statements about the new seismology were presumably timed to precede this week's renewal of disarmament discussions at Geneva. They may well mean that the West is prepared to consider a new test moratorium, confident that it can detect secret Soviet tests, perhaps without any instruments at all on Soviet territory...
...archenemy of smut. His show is clean, decent, plain, straightforward, decorous, honest, and full of gimmicks like the daily snake march around the breakfast table. And even if McNeill says good-morning and reports, "It's a foggy, soggy morning in Chicago," fans all over the U.S. nonetheless detect a shaft of sunshine in his voice...