Word: lock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were equipped to detect tracking by the GCI radar system (most are now). In any case, if that radar was working properly, most U.S. planes would be picked up and monitored long before crossing the DMZ. Beginning in mid-December 1971, Hanoi "netted" this radar into the lock-on radar capability of each local SAM site, alerting the SAM crews when a U.S. craft was coming within range. Indeed, Lavelle told the Senators, he lost planes and crews on two occasions when, without the SAM using its own radar, which U.S. pilots could detect, the general system guided missiles...
...only barely. "You can't really enjoy a film when you are called out of the cinema three times for a bomb scare," observes one laconic citizen. Most pubs downtown now close at 6 for lack of business. The restaurants and movies are largely empty. People tend to lock themselves up in the ghettos that mark the residents as Protestant, Catholic or Jewish. "Like everyone else," says Shipyard Worker John Bleakley, "we stay at home at night with our own kind and don't answer the door...
...crime problem students will most likely face is bicycle theft. Robert Tonis, chief of the Harvard Police, estimates that 150 bikes are stolen from Harvard students each year. A chain and lock are not footproof deterrents. A bike chained to a parking meter or sign can be lifted over the top. Most chains can be with a bolt-cutter and even if a ten-pound motorcycle chain securely attaches the front wheel to a root thieves will often settle for the rear wheel as frame. One of the authors of this article had hi Raleigh stolen while writing the place...
Jane Austen may have been a great novelist, but her hair was a mess. That bit of historical minutia was revealed by Scientist J.A. Swift of Britain's Unilever Research after an exhaustive analysis of a lock of hair that had been bequeathed by Miss Austen to her niece and ended among the relics of the Jane Austen Society. His scanning electron microscope, Swift reported in the erudite scientific journal Nature, showed that changes brought about in individual hairs by brushing and combing were absent from the lock of the woman who wrote Pride and Prejudice. "It must...
...providing either social justice or freedom. It is hard to see how growth could be halted, or even substantially slowed, without a world dictatorship-the more so as citizens of underdeveloped countries already suspect that the no-growth argument is an elitist, aristocratic, white man's conspiracy to lock them into perpetual poverty. It would do little good to stop growth in the U.S. if it raged on in Algeria and Indonesia. At minimum, people would have to be told that they could not buy the flush toilets or transistor radios that they desire because computers had decreed that...