Word: radius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...girl who was attacked--who asked to remain unidentified--said, "I feel very strongly that a warning should be issued to girls in the Square radius." She added that "the large number of similar incidents makes extreme precautions necessary...
...would happen if there were an accident. When the military men quickly ducked the issue, they were confronted by M.I.T. Visiting Professor George Rathjens, who was deputy director of the Pentagon's Advance Research Projects Agency under President Kennedy. "An accidental explosion would cause total destruction for a radius of five miles," he said, though he allowed that any such mishap was "extremely improbable...
...There are two major jamming techniques used by the U.S.S.R. One, called ground-wave jamming, employs a local transmitter that blocks a selected frequency with either a garbling distortion signal or by overriding another program with a Soviet program. This technique, however, works well only within a three-mile radius of the transmitter. Sky-wave jamming, the second technique, calls for transmission from a point as far away as the source of the outside signal. This requires expensive tower construction in remote areas and constant monitoring of the ionosphere, off which radio waves are bounced from sender to receiver...
...Boston, I was shipping out to Lowell, I was shipping to Fall River, New Bedford, we covered Providence, I had a distributor down in Providence, and I had one in Brockton, I had one in Holbrook, Randolph, all of Quincy, Lynn, Revere, I had all around, within a radius of 25, 30 miles of Boston, we covered, each driver covered a different area. I covered quite a bit. But the outside sales were not to be compared to the sales in the city. I had about 30,000 in Boston. All over the city. In any store in the city...
...which flew past Venus less than two days after the Russian landing. According to JPL, the Russian capsule stopped sending signals when it was 3,774 miles from the center of Venus. But recent measurements by four powerful U.S. radar installations have established that the planet's radius is only 3,759 miles. That means that at the instant Venus 4 stopped transmitting, it must have been 15 miles above the planet's surface. The capsule, Kliore and Cain speculate, may have landed on a Venusian mountain three times as high as Mount Everest. Or more likely...