Word: dished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unaffected by magnetic storms. Such microwaves cannot be used in normal long-range radio transmissions, since they do not bend around the curve of the earth, travel only along line-of-sight paths. When a message (Teletype, code or facsimile) is to be sent to Hawaii, an 84-ft. dish antenna at Annapolis, Md. is pointed at the moon. If the weather is overcast, the signal is aimed at the moon's calculated position-clouds do not affect it. The 100-kw. signal fades to a faint whisper during its 480,000-mile trip, but it slants down from...
Actress Hayworth, the onetime pinup girl, has now mastered the role of the beat-down broad, and when she is on-camera, she holds the show in shape. When she is not, the suspense dissolves into a mess of sentimental pablum-hardly the dish a customer expects from Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty] Odets. Scriptwriter Odets here takes his first crack in 15 years at directing a picture, and perhaps should be forgiven some errors of inexperience. But seasoned Producer Jerry Wald might have done something about Actor Franciosa, an almost comically intense young man who reads every line...
...months. The system is simple: an English student begins with consonants, learns that b sounds like buh-for-bird and sees the letter imposed on a picture of a bird. Much see-and-say repetition is followed by c imposed on a cup, d on a dish, f on a fish. Then come vowels, easy stories and eventually writing in script...