Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SNAP III's heart is a pinpoint one-hundredth of an ounce of radioactive polonium 210 encased in a molybdenum capsule. The polonium's entrapped radiation heats the capsule to above 700° F. Arranged around it like the spokes of a wheel are 20 thermocouples made of lead telluride. When their ends are heated by the capsule, a flow of electrons is set up in the thermocouples, producing an electric current. At peak power, SNAP III can turn out five watts. Before most of its polonium (half life: 140 days) is exhausted, SNAP III will generate...
...Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...
What a pleasure to have Mr. Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
...Gets It? Diligent researchers offered more facts and fewer theories on the importance of stress and diet as shorteners of life. Main trouble has always been to find two groups of people similar in all but a few respects, then pinpoint the variations as causes of differences in patterns of disease. Doctors from the Medical Col lege of South Carolina and the University of Haiti picked on their local Negro populations as ethnically indistinguishable, then did post-mortem examinations of the hearts and aortas of 139 South Carolinians and 128 Haitians of equivalent ages and the same sex distribution...
...Mobile radar, mounted on two two-wheel trailers can instantly pinpoint hidden enemy mortars more than six miles distant (mortar fire accounted for more than half the Army's World War II and Korean war casualties...