Word: lag
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ratings. Glick, 43, now with his eighth radio station since 1953, has become a glib, gemütlich master of the new formula. All he has to defend himself against his telephone callers is a tape-delay device, which gives him a four-second time lag in which to erase obscenities from the air. To ease the strain, there is an occasional celebrity visitor such as Songstress Edie Adams or Rocky Marciano...
...about?" asks Françoise Rosay, a world-weary old Frenchwoman caught in the tumult of D-day in Normandy. Such questions are staples of the burgeoning crop of movies about World War II. Perhaps the worst blow that can befall a war drama is to let the hostilities lag while homilies ricochet among the ruins, and Beach too often calls time out for talk...
...Lag? Once back in Houston, back to his wearing schedule, back to the demands of days filled with life-and-death decisions, DeBakey will return to the medico-political battles that he never shuns. A progressive Democrat and an acquaintance of President Johnson, DeBakey favors the use of federal funds for medicine. "The Federal Govern ment," he says, "has already put a lot of money into medicine, and every physician in the United States is better off for it-better off than he ever was before...
Approximately the same proportion of publicly-controlled and privately-controlled schools have adopted policy position on discrimination. But church related schools show a considerable lag...
...microwaves will pass through the strongest part of the sun's gravitational field. If Einstein was right, they will be slowed down ever so slightly. Dr. Shapiro figures that during their 25-minute round trip of about 300 million miles, the gravity-hampered waves will lag by two ten-thousandths of a second, making Venus appear about 40 miles farther away than it really...