Word: detective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police the ban with a global network of long-range seismographs, plus international teams of inspectors to probe any suspicious earth tremors on the spot. But the U.S. would exempt all underground tests of less than 19 kilotons (about one Hiroshima bomb), because they are nearly impossible to detect...
...controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls, the bid seemed to contain two Soviet concessions: that small tests would not have to be banned permanently, and an admission that the control system needs to be improved...
...acid bath left Riesel in a dim world of shadows. The unimpaired retinas of both eyes receive vague images, projected through scar tissue as through frosted glass. Both lenses are gone. He can detect violent movements, distinguish a truck from a car. But to tell time he must feel the hands of his watch; when he is dining at the Men's Bar in the Biltmore, a favorite haunt, friends must help him find the hamburger on his plate -and sometimes even the plate...
...eyes snapping, fired back at the snipers. In his answers his foes could find many of the things for which they jeer Ike: sprawling syntaxes and turbulent tenses, and a tendency to state his decisions as gospel without citing the reasons behind them. But his friends could also easily detect Eisenhower's sense of purpose and unflagging concern for the nation's wellbeing. Items...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...