Word: lensed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Risser and Doremus think last week's elaborately curving baseball is the best special effect they have ever devised, and jealously guard the details of its operation. To bring it off, they ran a string through the baseball to control its flight, used a wide-angle lens to make...
The Festival opened amid ancient pageantry that had not changed since long before Victoria's day. A huge bonfire blazed in London, to signal the lighting of 2,000 others throughout Britain. A crowd of 3,000 spectators jammed the new $6,000,000 Thames-side Royal Festival Hall...
In the Capitol, three cameras focused on the hushed House chamber and on MacArthur's deeply serious face as he spoke. One camera, equipped with a "zoo-mar" lens flown down from New York, shot dramatic close-ups of the procession down Pennsylvania Avenue.
...anything he knew about the atomic project. Greenglass obliged and even added a sketch of a "lens mold" he was working on for use in the atom bomb itself. He drew a copy for the jury, and a Los Alamos scientist explained that these four-leaf-clover-shaped lenses were made of high explosives designed to focus detonation waves as an optical lens focuses light waves. This made an "implosion" rather than an explosion. The sketch, he said, was sufficient to show an expert "what was going on" at Los Alamos...
With Scissors. At the Rosenbergs, the conspirators arranged for future deliveries. Rosenberg tore the back off a package of Jello, took a pair of scissors and snipped the cardboard in half. One-half he gave to Greenglass' wife, the other he kept. The next time Greenglass saw the other...