Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...railing is narrow, and the gorge below is deep, but readers can test how well McPhee succeeded in "The Man on the Billboard" in SHOW BUSINESS. He was helped immeasurably by the candor of that most complicated and honest man, Richard Burton. At one point, Elizabeth Taylor warned her friend that he was putting himself in peril by talking so freely to McPhee. By way of answer, Burton turned to McPhee. "You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice...
Until the last decade, nearly everything we know about the planets, stars, and galaxies came to us on light waves in the narrow, visible portion of the spectrum. Astronomers have likened the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum--which stretches from short-wave gamma rays at one end and the long radio waves at the other--to a tiny window looking out on the universe. Most of the revolution in modern astronomy stems from the design of instruments that have opened up new "windows" in the electromagnetic spectrum...
...heart of the instrument is a tiny square "thermistor," one-tenth of a millimeter on a side, small than a pin head, and attached to two hairlike platinum wires. The electrical resistance of the thermistor changes in response to tiny fluctuations in temperature. Special filters allow only a very narrow band of the infrared, between eight and 14 microns, to fall on the thermistor. The filter rejects the shorter infrared waves omitted by the sun and reflected by the moon. The earth's atmosphere, where water vapor, ozone and carbon dioxide absorb other portions of the infrared, also acts...
...British clergyman and minor poet, wrote a memorable line when he described ancient Petra as "a rose-red city half as old as time." Romantic, inaccessible, it lies in the midst of a vast desert in southern Jordan, and today, as always, its only approach is through a deep, narrow gorge called the Siq, which tradition says was created when Moses struck the rock with his rod. From 300 B.C. to A.D. 100, when Petra flourished as the caravan capital of the Nabataeans, the Siq made the city impregnable, since a few men in the serpentine gorge, often no more...
...mountain of sand. But he produced on schedule, in a few years had another shipyard, and followed that with the establishment of his yard outside Rotterdam, one of the world's biggest and most modern. Once, when he decided to launch a 26,500-ton ship into a narrow canal, thousands of Dutchmen showed up to watch the disaster. But Verolme had made laboratory tests and even practiced at home with a small model in a tub. The ship was launched without incident-and so were 59 others in his network of yards...