Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed to detect the launching of Russian missiles in a nuclear attack on this country. Signals from satellites and radars are fed into a network of computers focused at the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center (NORAD) in Colorado and three other command centers. The information analysed and displayed by the computers is constantly discussed by members of the four commands in "missile display conferences...
...fell asleep." For the next 15 years, he made his living by writing some 30 inconsequential novels and innumerable short stories under a variety of aliases, including Simon Quinn, Jake Logan and Nick Carter. None bore much resemblance to their originator, an intense longdistance runner whose coloring and physiognomy "display a classic mix of genes -my mother is mostly Pueblo Indian and my father is straight out of an Andy Hardy movie...
Called upon to heave 67-pound cases of Prestone onto a 15-foot pile in the stock room. I gained a new pride in my athletic ability. After working up a sweat filling the charcoal display, I would roll up my sleeves, loosen my tie, and whisper, "Now comes Miller time," as I sipped a Fanta grape soda...
When I get to the Trib. I am informed that the visual display terminals I am to use are leaking radioactivity at dangerous levels. I type for eight straight hours...
...what Harvard coach Roger Martin termed "the most embarrassing display of Harvard volleyball in the last six years," the spikers gave up an 11-0 lead, and lost to Springfield College, 15-13, in the quarterfinals of the Eastern Collegiate Volleyball League Open Tournament held this weekend at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark...