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Word: dished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first command-"Roll minus 9.33 degrees"-sped across space from the great dish antenna at Goldstone. After an agonizing wait for radio travel time, Mariner II acknowledged the command and repeated it accurately. For more than an hour the long-distance conversation continued, carried on in a language of carefully spaced pulses of radio energy. At Goldstone these pulses appeared as mere dots on a slowly moving tape. But each combi nation of dots represented numbers in the two-digit binary code that computers understand best. Finally, Goldstone sent "Signal RTC-6," which told Mariner II to execute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Command Correction | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...satirical French weekly, shows Charles de Gaulle all gussied up in Louis XIV garb as he packs a herculean suit of armor and Cyrano-sized nosepiece for a sally across the Rhine. "Madame," says the general to his wife, "will you please not forget my pajamas." No Dish Twice. But France's President will have very little time for sleep in the course of a strenuous six-day visit to West Germany this week. From Hamburg in the north to Munich in the south, the Germans-at De Gaulle's request-have laid on a man-killing marathon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: De Gaulle's Absolution | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...steel empire. Within ten years he had built it into Germany's second largest steel company - only to be booted out with $600,000 in severance pay when aris tocratic Frau Amelie Thyssen, the com pany's largest stockholder, decided that the brash Goergen was not her dish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Little Man | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

There's also, on the "Menu of Foreign Intrigue," Polish Kilbasi, (50 cents). Caviar and Devilled Egg (50 cents), and what is billed as an "Authentic Chop Suey Roll" (55 cents) -- a dish which Milty ought to know it itself about as "Authentic" as Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Crusade. And this is not to mention, of course, the Kishke (15 cents) or the "Break-the-House Breakfast Special," which offers orange juice, three eggs, three strips of bacon or ham, home fries, toast and two cups of coffee for 99 cents. Or the free bowls of pickles and potato...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Milty's | 7/9/1962 | See Source »

...precinct workers dish out blotters showing Shell riding a missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Fire from the Right | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

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