Word: detective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts published or still secret had come from a giant mechanism of men and machines, designed specifically to detect an atomic explosion anywhere in the world. When Intelligence got a tip that the Russians had solved the atomic riddle, the mechanism swung into action...
...issue bloomed with color printing. Weird symbols of internal organs caught the eye. Among the standing features: "Tumor Topics" and "Cancer Quiz." The Bulletin could say anything with enthusiasm. Inch-high type clarioned: "EVERY PERSON HAS A RECTUM . . . Any Doctor Can Examine It." An article on digital examination to detect cancer of the breast was briskly headed "Stop, Look and Feel," and decked with 17 drawings in color. The editors and artists even hit on a way to make a cover design for castration (a palliative for cancer of the prostate). They used a three-color cartoon of a topi...
...results are already easy to detect even from the loudspeaker end. The old sing-preach-and-pray formula that made radio religion a drug on the market is giving way more & more to the kind of religious programming that competes with secular shows: religious newscasts, interviews, round tables, special events and dramatic shows...
...henchmen still prowled the halls, and flowers from admirers filled the room. For the first time in years, he was able to sleep when it was dark. Though his swank stucco house in Brentwood is ringed with a wire fence, equipped with electronic gadgets to detect intruders and bathed by floodlights which he can turn on from his car two blocks away, he seldom found it convenient to go home before dawn...
Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...