Word: pips
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equipped with suitable transmitting equipment, said Professor Lovell, the telescope could bounce a radar pulse off the moon and get an echo 2½ seconds later not as a faint pip but as a deafening roar. It might also get echoes from Venus and Mars. If there were a spaceship cruising near the moon, the telescope could track it easily. If spaceships ever cruise among the planets, such giant dishes may guide them through space like the radars that help airliners land on fogbound, present-day airports...
...Danny into a theater, the audience witnesses what is surely the first performance of a classic ballet that ever included a cakewalk. Biggest laugh: Danny, posing as a British explorer at one point, is asked what he thought of the Himalayas. For an instant he looks flummoxed, then casually pip-pips: "Loved him. Hated...
Moises Padilla was an insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
...biggest U.S. scarcity was in fast ocean passenger tonnage convertible to troop transport service. No U.S. passenger ships were built during World War II, and the pip-squeak postwar construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits...