Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ability to detect hostile missiles at the start of their flights will be an important advantage in the uneasy world of the future when each major nation has the power to blast its enemies by long-range rocketry. When the missiles plunge down through the atmosphere, they can be detected for only a few last minutes of flight, and this leaves little time for counteraction. But if a satellite sees them blasting off deep in enemy territory, the home team has a better chance to hit them with counter-missiles before they return to earth...
...Jordan, that wide space in the desert which has little reason for nationhood, the noisily Nationalist government has been losing steam. Young (21) King Hussein a fortnight ago wrote Premier Suleiman Nabulsi bluntly: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people...
Guided by the air photos to a tomb area near Cerveteri (the ancient Etruscan Caere), Lerici trotted out another scientific trick. From the ground the tombs are invisible, but he found that sensitive photometers could detect the slight differences of color between grass growing over a tomb and ordinary grass...
...Democrats for years to frighten Prosperity's babies. Warned ex-President Herbert Hoover: "Secretary Humphrey says that unless we change some of our ways, we will see 'a depression that will curl your hair.' Mine has already been curled once, and I think I can detect the signs . . . Unless we curb inflation on its way up, Old Man Economic Law will return with a full equipment of hair curlers...
...Mine has already been curled once--and I think I can detect the signs...