Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...photograph of a one-foot object from 100 miles overhead. The pictures, which are recorded in black and white, color or infrared, may be transmitted almost instantaneously to ground stations in the U.S. The satellite is also equipped with electronic listening devices that can pick up military and government radio messages and store them on endless miles of tape...
That brutal robbery became the Tulsa citizens crime commission's "Crime of the Week." The commission's "Crime Stoppers" program aired a re-enactment of the robbery over the evening news and offered $1,000 for information leading to the man's arrest. Radio stations followed up with 30-second spots and the Tulsa Tribune ran a daily story on the crime throughout the week. The reward and the publicity worked: within 24 hours an anonymous tipster helped police identify the culprit...
...debate, sponsored by radio station WBUR, focused on Boston's housing crisis and the need to solve the economic and racial issues that plague the city...
...kickline" whose speed and precision make the Radio City Rockettes look like high school cheerloaders...
...partly the spectacle of Western decadence that aroused the Ayatullah Khomeini to orgies of Koranic proscription. Alcohol, music, dancing, mixed bathing all have been curtailed by the Iranian revolution. Americans find this zealotry sinister, but also quaint: How can almost childish pleasures (a tune on the radio, a day at the beach) deserve such puritanical hellfires? But Americans are also capable of a small chill of apprehension, a barely acknowledged thought about the prices that civilizations pay for their bad habits: If Iran has driven out its (presumably polluted) monarch and given itself over to a purification that demands even...