Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airs the first photos. A gauntlet of exterior ray guns is visible, and the UFO is presumed hostile. The Dow is up 500, led by defense contractors, security and firearms companies, and any that bottle or can food and drink...
...closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
Then, demonstrating a technique that any driver maneuvering into a tight parking spot would envy, Sojourner energetically swiveled its wheels back and forth and "crabbed" sideways into a position near Yogi. The next day, however, when the rover moved toward the rock to perform X-ray spectroscopy, says project scientist Justin Maki, "it got a little too enthusiastic." What really happened is that Sojourner's controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began...
Every day for the past 28 years, James Earl Ray has held firm to his story: he didn't kill Martin Luther King Jr. Eight times he has petitioned state and federal courts to reopen the case. Eight times judges have turned him down, upholding the guilty plea that Ray made 11 months after King's assassination in April 1968, then recanted three days later. Even statements by the King family asserting their belief that Ray deserves a full trial have led nowhere. Last Friday, however, a criminal-court judge in Memphis, Tenn., provided Ray with a glimmer of hope...
Giving a preliminary interpretation of a test comparing the markings on the bullet that killed King with test bullets that were recently fired from Ray's 30-06 hunting rifle, Judge Joseph Brown said, "This comparison revealed that the gross and unique characteristic signature left on the 12 test bullets by the James Earl Ray rifle was not present on the death bullet." Adopting a tone of advocacy that a prosecutor termed "improper," Brown essentially called for reopening the King investigation. He told defense lawyers and state prosecutors that he wants to see the results of FBI test firings made...