Word: detections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young men and women of America: 'We cannot trust you. We cannot depend upon you. We cannot use you -except for fodder in the flames of war.'" Moyers also feels strongly about Texas. A television interviewer, noting Moyers' soft twang, asked: "Do I detect a Texas accent?" Replied Moyers quickly: "Not only in my speech, sir, but in my heart...
...jury's toughest job was to detect the credible in a welter of conflicting testimony. About the only thing most witnesses agreed upon was that the trouble began when the superintendent of an apartment building across the street from Robert F. Wagner Junior High School sprayed a group of summer-school pupils with a hose and that the kids retaliated by throwing garbage-can covers and bottles at him. The superintendent, Patrick Lynch, fled into the building, and Powell followed him. Gilligan, who had just taken a radio to a repair shop in the building, heard the noise...
...their latest findings, Drs. Sandlow and Necheles report equal accuracy in other hard-to-detect forms of cancer. The test was positive and accurate in seven out of seven cases of cancer of the pancreas, in 12 out of 12 who had cancer involving the pleura (the lining of the chest cavity), and in 12 more with cancer of the abdominal cavity...
...produced by neutron activation analysis (N.A.A.), which subjects specimens under study to irradiation with neutrons in a nuclear reactor. The fine details of the specimens' chemical composition can then be deduced from the pattern of radiation they give off. So sensitive is the technique that it can detect a thimbleful of poison dissolved in ten tank cars of water...
Caveman Drawing. What a cartoonist draws is inevitably colored by what he feels, and the feelings of many a cartoonist are even plainer to detect than those of their like-minded colleagues at typewriters in the newsroom. The Washington Post's Herblock draws Goldwater with a snarling lip, but says: "I think he's so bad all you have to do is to picture him as he is." Paul Conrad of the Los Angeles Times also claims, "I don't put in any more than I see." What he sees is a jutting jaw and a vacant...