Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutual rage and hostility. The white one wanted to sit down, but he was going to exert his authority and force the black one to get up first-so that they would not have to sit side by side. I watched the driver's face in the rearview mirror...
Then, apparently, the driver decided to forget the whole thing. The next stop was Main Street, and when he got there, in what seemed to be a flash of lightning, he flung both doors open wide. He and his black antagonist looked at each other in the rearview mirror; in a second the windbreaker and the porkpie hat were gone. The little woman was standing preaching to the whole bus about the Government's gift of these seats to the blacks; the white man with the brown shoes practically fell out of the door in his hurry. I followed...
...foreign reaction was more acerbic. The Amsterdam daily Volkskrant called Clark a nitwit. The Johannesburg Citizen labeled him the "Don't Know Man." Editorialized the London Daily Mirror: "America's allies in Europe-Europe, Mr. Clark, you must have heard of it -will hope he is never in charge at a time of crisis." Yet the Daily Mirror joked that Britain once had a Foreign Secretary who was "alleged to believe that Sodom and Gomorrah were sisters...
When the Young Socialists recommended their chairman, Andrew Bevan, then age 24, as the Labor Party's National Youth Officer back in 1976, the hue and cry was immediate. London's Daily Mirror was quick to call him "Red Andy" and "a dangerous representative of Trotskyist infiltration." The Times editorialized that Bevan was a "subversive element" and likened his appointment to "soldiers under siege being asked suddenly to accept the command of one of the enemy." An array of Labor stalwarts, including Michael Foot and then Prime Minister James Callaghan, objected to Bevan's selection...
Most reflector telescopes, including the smallest backyard instruments, play a kind of Ping Pong with light entering the open end of the tube, and so does the space telescope. Light strikes the primary mirror, and then is focused and bounced back to a small secondary mirror (12 in. in diameter) directly in front of it. Rebounding off this mirror as well, the captured light will be funneled through a central hole in the principal reflector and onto a bank of scientific instruments: two cameras, two spectrometers (for analyzing light) and a photometer (for measuring its intensity). All the information from...