Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defy the state. The bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference to their longtime favorite, Mercurys), or fit used cars with Cadillac engines. Some still prefer the old technique of concealing a hundred or more cases under the hay of a cattle...
Once the sphere is aloft, the Smithsonian takes over, and the name for the project becomes Operation Moon watch. Groups of amateur astronomers across the country will be set to watch for the satellite at twilight and, if they detect it, will rush their findings to Cambridge. With a few of these determinations, high-speed computers will calculate the satellite's orbit, and the photographic stations will be ready to assume the major part of the observing program. The satellites will also be equipped with radio senders, but these may not function adequately at first...
...Explained that it was not always possible, Stevenson to the contrary, to detect thermonuclear tests in Russia. "We believe that we have detected practically all such tests to date. It is however impossible ... to have positive assurance . . . except in the case of the largest weapons...
...broad, busy streets of Montevideo last week it was hard to detect any signs of malaise. Montevideans looked well-fed, as usual, and stores were crowded with customers. Perhaps in no other Latin American capital were sidewalks so conspicuously free of beggars and ragamuffins. The faces in the crowd, as big-city crowds go, showed a high average of cheer...
...Because certain cancers take up phosphorus more readily than healthy tissues do, a University of Minnesota team headed by Dr. Donald B. Shahon tried using a radioactive form of the element (phosphorus 32) to reach hard-to-find cancers of the intestinal tract. It has helped surgeons to detect diseased tissues in a stage before full-blown cancer could be proved...