Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...palpable presence, and so modern that it has jolted the world with an atomic explosion. So expansionist that its neighbors have lived in varied degrees of fear since before the birth of Christ, and so troubled internally that as often as not it has been unable to feed and clothe itself. So weak, so strong, so arrogant, so humble, so rich, so poor, so wise, so foolish. But one generalization can be made today: the majority of the people remain loyal and obedient to the Communist Party and the Communist cause. Not enthusiastic, but obedient...
...early radio sets, can pick microwave energy out of the air and turn it into direct current with reasonable efficiency. Thousands of diodes, strung like glass beads on a network of wires, are needed to intercept Raytheon's beam. In the model helicopter demonstrated last week, they feed direct current at about 100 volts to a small motor taken from an electric drill. The beam of 2,450-megacycle microwaves starts out with three kilowatts of power; the diode antenna turns it into electricity with an efficiency of about...
...industry is eagerly putting them to the test. An electronic computer runs crewless auxiliary locomotives on long Louisville & Nashville freight trains. The New York Stock Exchange is installing a computer system that can answer brokers' questions, keep track of floor transactions at each trading post, and feed quotations to the ticker at the rate of 16 million shares a day. More than 100 companies control their inventories with computers, which record every sale and tell managers when and how much to reorder. Borrowing an idea from the airlines, Long Island's Maxson Electronics Co. plans by next July...
...will boost the Connecticut-sized island's population 18% to nearly 2,000,000 by 1970. Emigration to Britain, formerly Jamaica's main outlet, has been cut off, which means more food, more jobs must be found. As matters stand, Jamaica cannot feed even its present population, has spent some $30 million to import food in the first six months this year...
...maintain your sense of the urgency of civil rights problems is to keep a copy of Howard Zinn's book handy. When you begin protesting that federal troops in McComb might cost Johnson votes in North Carolina, turn to a passage like this one, describing SNCC workers' attempts to feed would-be voters who had been waiting all day to register in Selma...