Word: gated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zero Gate. To find out whether space radiation was the guilty party, Bell engineers hooked up a command decoder just like Telstar's and exposed it to gamma rays in a shielded chamber. It went out of action quickly, and the engineers traced the trouble to a single transistor called the "zero gate" designed to react to short pulses-coded zeros-in command signals. With the zero-counting transistor blocked by ions, the decoder could receive no zeros, and a binary code, which consists only of zeros and ones, is meaningless if deprived of half its vocabulary...
Herbert first came into the Yard through the famous gate inscribed "Enter To Grow In Wisdom" and, ambitious Freshman that he was, determined to grow Harvard wise. He quickly learned the primary lesson that there are smooth and rough, weil-considered and ill-considered ways of saying things. It was rough and offensive not to qualify adjectives. To say, "This book is good," is too direct, too hard on the sensibilities. How much better to say, "This book is quite good," "rather good," or "sort of good." Herbert also discovered the devastating effect of the words "indeed," "thus...
...Herbert left Harvard through the famous gate inscribed "Depart To Serve Better Thy Country And Thy Kind." Exception might be taken to the unreflective urgency of the imperative, but, surely, Herbert thought, one could embrace the desire to invigorate the public sector...
...daughter Angeline to the White House in 1958 to seek justice, with a rusty, 9-ft. chain padlocked around her neck. The key was mailed to President Eisenhower, who ordered secret servicemen to return it to Angeline. Angeline unlocked her chain necklace, padlocked it securely on the main gate of the Executive Mansion, and strolled off, leaving the U.S. in something of a bind...
...little sister like a worm. But fame fades and the worm turns. When Jane (Bette) grows up, she becomes a drunk. When sister (Joan) grows up, she becomes a Hollywood star. One night in a fury Joan tries to run Bette down, but the car strikes a stone gate instead, and Joan loses the use of her legs for life. Too drunk to remember what happened, Bette thinks that she herself had been driving the car, and Joan lets her think so. Crushed by guilt, Bette feels bound in conscience to spend the rest of her life tending a cranky...