Word: meteored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates knew, the military persuades or forces many Latin American governments to spend a fifth of the budget for arms that rarely see use in the country's defense. Item: Tiny, poverty-ridden Ecuador owns twelve Meteor jet fighters, six Canberra jet bombers, two jet trainers. Because the U.S. has supplied many of the arms under mutual-defense treaties, some of the overarmed Latin Americans had sharp retorts for Anderson's remarks. "Tell it to the Pentagon," said an Ecuadorian. But the overall reception was surprisingly friendly. Probable reason: Secretary Anderson was talking to Finance Ministers, who must...
...will fire. When it burns out at 75 miles above the earth, Far Side will be climbing at about 18,000 m.p.h., and it will not stop until it has climbed 4,000 miles. When it falls back, the friction of the atmosphere will burn Far Side like a meteor before it can reach the earth...
Whipple said that the danger of punctures from comets is "not serious." A meteor-buffer device, invented by him several years ago, would solve the problem by providing the spaceship with a "second skin," which could be thrown off when punctured...
...rocket that flies upward just as a rocket should-and then comes back to earth too fast for its own good. See SCIENCE, Man-Made Meteor...
...while it turned down and fired its final stages. The last stage is small, certainly not big enough to be seen at that distance under ordinary circumstances, but when the X-17 struck through the cloud deck, it was moving so fast that it had become a man-made meteor, brilliantly visible 80 miles away. Most of its plunging metal must have vaporized...