Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most radars can cope with this fairly simple trick, so well-furnished bombers will probably carry decoys to mislead sophisticated radars. When the bombers have been illuminated and are likely to be attacked, they will launch small, fast missiles with transmitters that have been tuned to copy the reflected signals...
Late in the rain-drenched game at Detroit's Briggs Stadium, the mud-daubed players blended into a black, slithering mess. Numbers disappeared, so did faces. Shivering spectators could barely tell one of the home-town Lions from an invading Green Bay Packer. But by then the Lions had...
Mrs. Harris H. Coggleshall, head resident, telephoned the police about 9 p.m., when she heard the burglar alarm on the fire escape. Before the police arrived, a neighbor, the Rev. C. Howard Wallace, pursued the man for about three blocks, but could not overtake him.
Escape Velocity. When the Aerobee's nose exploded 55 miles up, the focused force of the shaped charges made three jets of aluminum pellets shoot into the near-vacuum like shot from three shotguns. The Air Force announcement is none too clear about what happened, but Maurice Dubin, physicist...
Since the particles started their flights at an altitude where there is still a little air, they were probably slowed down considerably by it. But Dubin thinks that some of them may have reached outer space while still moving about 30,000 m.p.h. This exceeds the escape velocity (25,000...