Word: parallele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back into the rod. This reflected light moves lengthwise between the two end mirrors, traversing .all of the ruby rod, knocking billions of chromium atoms off the energy shelf and releasing a vast amount of red light, all of whose waves are in step and all of which move parallel .to the sides of the rod. A few of those waves escape through the silver of one mirror, which is not quite thick enough to be totally opaque, and form the pencil beam of red maser light...
...camera that performs these stunts is a sort of microscope in reverse. One end looks at a page of print or a pattern of parallel lines, and the train of small lenses at the other end forms an exact and tiny image. Individual letters on the negative are hardly bigger than bacteria, and an excellent microscope is needed to read them...
...this, Globov smashes everything in their apartment-only one birthday present, a bust of "The One." "The Master" (i.e., Stalin), being miraculously preserved. In revenge, Globov sends a doctor he suspects of having performed the abortion to the Kolyma River forced-labor camp. Actually, in a satirical parallel to the "Doctors' Plot," Rabinovich is innocent...
...mood of the crowds varied puzzlingly from stop to stop, and Kennedy's most consistent admirers seemed to be the teenagers, who swarmed around him like the children of Hamelin around the piper-a good sign, according to John Bailey, Kennedy's Connecticut henchman, who saw a parallel to the youngsters who liked Ike so well...
...analysis does not include "indirect costs" of operating a commercial space line-maintenance, administration, advertising, ticketing and profit-but its authors insist these charges should parallel standard airline operating expenses. All costs included, the estimated price of a round-trip ticket to the moon would be $900-about $40 less than the current first-class jet fare from New York to Paris and back...