Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick as a pencil lead, emitted ultrasound pulses and picked up the echoes that came back from objects in their path. The time difference between pulse and echo, shown as a peak on a tiny oscilloscope (like a one-inch TV tube) held in an assistant surgeon's hand, indicated the distance...
...harrow strip of paper and gluing its ends together after giving the strip a half-turn. The loop that results has peculiar qualities. Most important, though the paper it is made of has two sides, the loop itself has only one surface. This can be proved by drawing a pencil line down the middle of the strip. The pencil line covers both sides of the paper and returns to the starting point without the strip's being turned over. When cut along the pencil line, the paper forms not two loops but one long, narrow loop. Cut once more...
...Senate that tries to impeach him, and 4) a Russian Premier who believes that he must secretly hate the society that rejects him. Novelist Wallace (The Chapman Report) embarked on The Man, he reports, by taking up his note pad and pencil one evening "and writing in a frenzy whatever came to my mind until daybreak." Obviously...
...villa. To get the folks back home, Perle provided a siren escorted shuttle service of minibuses, each marked PERLE'S PARTY LINE. The Mesta affairs were Atlantic City's top gate-crashing attractions-despite the fact that Perle herself was everlastingly vigilant, standing at the door with pencil and guest list in hand...
...North Vietnamese bases, government officials and civilians alike waited with a kind of horrible fascination for some sign of things to come. Crews of workers carved up the city's parks, preparing air-raid shelters for 400,000 of Saigon's 1,500,000 residents, while government pencil pushers cranked up a plan to evacuate hundreds of thousands more in the event of an attack...