Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Johannesburgers barricade their homes at night, do not venture out in the evenings except in cars, and keep revolvers and rifles handy. They also keep watchdogs, the fiercer the better: usually Dobermans or great Danes. Every white Johannesburger is ready to dial "30" (for the Flying Squad) at sign of trouble. To whites, between 300 and 400 firearm licenses are granted every month. The most popular weapon with the pistol-underthe-pillow population is a .25 automatic...
...seed clouds over 330 million acres west of the Missouri River (an area ten times as big as New York State), plus sections of Mexico and San Salvador. This, he intimates happily, is only a beginning-he visualizes a time when a rancher may need only turn a dial in his house to regulate rainfall on his acres. But until that day comes, the West will have to do the best it can with plain old Krick water...
...meter every six seconds, all the while reporting regularly to Cosyns over a special telephone connected through the center of the cable. At 130 meters, the expedition got a bad scare when a short circuit cut off communication for a few moments. But by the time the windlass dial registered 300 meters, excitement on the surface was running high. If Lépineux continued for just a little longer, he would break the long-standing vertical drop record of 318 meters.* "Stop," he finally called. "I am on the bottom." The windlass dial registered 356 meters...
Actually the titans are Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum to the fellow who clicks his dial from channel to channel hoping to chance upon something more enervating than Howdy-Doody or the lady wrestlers. Justice Frankfurter must have been trying to convey something of this horror and nausea when, in his decision the other day, he expressed the fear that television may be a "new Barbarism parading as scientific progress." He concluded that along with radio, television could no doubt "enlarge man's horizon, but by making him a captive listener it may make for his spiritual impoverishment...
...sensitive instrument registers its count. The chatter he heard from the machine shocked the startled patrolman right out of his routine, sent him rushing to the Health Instruments Division. There, doctors quickly confirmed the machine's verdict. His hands were emitting more radiation than a radium watch dial...