Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peron, no economist, looked on a possible loan with a politician's cold eye. At the Peronista rally, he melodramatically protested that "before signing [such] a document ... I would shoot myself...
...practical eye of Jesus Antonio Molina Vega, an architect and contractor, Colombian religious art seemed decadent. He thought he could do better. Three years ago, in his native city of Neiva (pop. 35,000), he started work on a statue of Christ...
...modern air force must have more than well-proved airplanes. It must have advanced designs that are still being tested, aircraft still in the drawing-board stage, and designs that are still gleams in an air designer's eye. Military aircraft are slow to develop, hard to build; every U.S. Army warplane that played a part in World War II was on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...
...Buck Rogerish dreams. A guided missile is no mere pilotless bomber shepherded by a nearby mother plane. According to M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl T. Compton, new chairman of the Research and Development Board, a missile must fly near its target unaccompanied and have some sort of "seeing eye" to recognize the target and steer toward it. Admittedly, this is a large order...
Word from Space. The problem of "midcourse guidance" might be solved, according to some experts, by automatic celestial navigation, the missile watching selected stars and steering by them. The "terminal guidance" problem, i.e., landing it on the target, is tougher. No one has explained publicly how a "seeing eye" could recognize a target by any influences it sent out (heat, light, magnetism) which the enemy could not screen off or simulate. The missile could not send back the observations of its eye by television, like the television bombs of World War II, for human brains to analyze. Since the very...