Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front row and held up a small microphone that led to a miniature wire recorder in a shoulder holster. Since then the reporters have been checking their quotes with Blair's machine, and even the Nixon staff has regularly consulted "dicky bird," as the newsmen dubbed the gadget because of the chirping squeal when it is run to replay a speech...
...display. Bristol Aeroplane Co., whose economical Proteus turboprop powers the new Britannia airliner (TIME, Dec. 19), showed off a bigger, 5,000-h.p. Orion version slated for 1959 production and an improved Olympus turbojet engine rated at a whopping 16,000 Ibs. of thrust. De Havilland uncorked a new gadget: a Supersprite rocket engine that weighs only 600 Ibs., yet can produce some 4,000 Ibs. of thrust for 40 sec. to lift heavily laden planes off short runways...
...U.C.L.A. researchers have used the gadget only in supposedly normal stomachs to get base-line data. In patients with ulcers, "nervous stomach" or similar disorders, it could be valuable in recording abnormal contractions...
Manhattan's hard-bitten police reporters clannishly resent invasions on their beat, whether by some general-assignment upstart from the city staff 'or by a gadget called TV. Last week the newsmen at headquarters glared hard at TV's intruding eye and stared it right down...
...gadget should delight practitioners of political oneupmanship. In a hassle over who opposed Zachary Taylor in 1848, the Settler-directed contestant would be in a position to score: "Why, Lewis Cass. I thought everybody knew that...