Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kissing the Kaaba. The focus of the hajj is the Kaaba, an almost cubical block of stone 45 ft. high, which Moslems believe was built by Abraham. This year, for the first time, it was illumined by neon lights. Mingling with the devout, Naguib performed the seven traditional circuits of the Kaaba, and managed to get close enough to kiss it, as millions had done before him. Outside Mecca, on the plain of Arafat, he arrived at the immense tent city which springs up for one day and vanishes again at nightfall. He sacrificed two rams and made...
...short distance from the runway, a 240-watt searchlight circles slowly, its narrow beam arcing day and night across the base of low-lying clouds. Only 200 feet away, a parabolic mirror points overhead to gather the searchlight's reflected glow and focus it on a photoelectric cell. As the clouds rise or fall, reflections vary. In the radio shack, remote-reading indicators record the angle at which the searchlight beam bounces back. Measuring cloud height is then a matter of simple trigonometry...
...assistants are experimenting with the university's new accelerator that should soon be splitting electrons at the highest speed ever reached: 186,000 miles a second, only a fraction slower than the speed of light. With his new microscope, which will put the atomic nucleus in even sharper focus, Hofstadter may well probe to the innermost limits of matter...
...Back in Focus. Even the movie industry was looking up. Loew's Inc. had a profit of $1,014,142 for the twelve weeks ended June 4, v. $740,817 a year ago; in the 26 weeks ended April 24, Republic Pictures Corp. net was up from $379,551 a year ago to $473,150. Polaroid Corp., which makes glasses for three-dimensional pictures, reported that sales almost doubled and earnings almost tripled ($2.34 per share v. 78? a year ago) in the first six months...
...President's desk. The Red campaign to "save the Rosenbergs" may have inspired the pleas, but many of them came from non-Communist clergymen and scientists, from liberals and humanitarians, from those who thought it bad politics to let the Communists have "martyrs" for their propaganda. At the focus of pressure, Dwight Eisenhower did not flinch...