Word: leak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...charged, 3,000-volt capacitor, but as long as the gap between them is a high vacuum (the engine works only in the vacuum of space), no spark of electricity can arc across. Every second or so, when a small amount of nitrogen gas is allowed to leak into the gap, a spark flashes, turning the nitrogen into a plasma by ionizing its atoms. The heavy current, which lasts only a few millionths of a second, creates a magnetic field that gives the plasma a powerful "pinch" and sends it squirting in brief bursts through a carefully shaped hole...
Oldsmobile. Unlike the Ford's, Oldsmobile's full-size 1962s have grown slightly larger. A new, horizontally-laced front grill and a squared-off rear end give them a wider, more massive appearance. For the man who wants the look but not the leak of a convertible, the F85 and the 88 feature a sheet-metal roof contoured like a cloth top, even to the ripples that lend the illusion of a metal frame supporting sagging fabric...
Duck's Egg. Some Western experts found the white paper's criticisms just too strident to be true. Or, if the paper was authentic, they suspected that it might be a calculated leak by Khrushchev, who is perennially running for office as the West's favorite Communist. Khrushchev, these experts argue, would like nothing better than to extract concessions from the West in the guise of the reasonable world statesman who needs to show results if he is to stand up to big, bad Mao. Deutscher himself is an ex-Communist and avowed Trotskyite who, though...
Down Tools. Through this leak in the Iron Curtain, the very lifeblood of East Germany dribbles out at a steady, undiminished rate. Almost 75% of the escapees are under 45-the very age group that Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht needs most to boost production and fulfill East Germany's role as one of the U.S.S.R.'s biggest trade partners and source of much of the Communist bloc's heavy machinery...
...gathered from the blacksheets of 14 top Washington correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when he tells of his bewilderment at discovering that some admirals and generals do leak secrets to reporters. The Kennedy Government, a one-man effort by Stan Opotowsky, author (The Longs of Louisiana) and political writer for the New York Post, is fairly cohesive, but his partisanship gleams through occasionally, and there are indications of hasty reporting. The portraits in both books are sharp...