Word: microsecond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sept. 22 in an area of the Indian Ocean and South Atlantic'' between South Africa and Antarctica. Officials disclosed that sensing devices on a U.S. satellite had detected the explosion. What the sensors ''saw'' was a flash of light, which dimmed for a microsecond, then became brighter. It was interpreted to be the tell-tale signature of a two-kiloton nuclear blast...
...baseball that viewers have rarely seen before. There are the .400 hitters who somehow never make the majors, and the .200 hitters who do. There is the strange case of the black athlete who could do everything-run, steal, hit, field-but who ducked from an inside pitch a microsecond too soon. His fear was his tragic flaw; beanball pitchers got the message and within a season drove the man from the game...