Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditional metal-detecting devices sometimes fail to spot modern bombs, which often have nonmetallic, acid-filled starters. The new devices that experts are developing include X-ray detectors that can more accurately locate a bomb without seeing it, an electronic sniffer that picks up the vapors emitted by dynamite, and a device for creating an electronic field that could cause certain explosives to emit an identifiable beep. On less exotic levels, officials are considering placing all lockers in a secured area, as Los Angeles did after a 1974 blast killed three people, or banning them altogether, as London has done...
...publication Aviation Week & Space Technology report that American and Russian scientists are stepping up efforts to develop weapons that until recently existed only in science fiction. They all depend on the laser, a device capable of generating a beam of light so powerful it can serve as a death ray...
...Brenda Ray diverted all attention from religious themes with "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight." Ray, left alone on stage, sensuously conveyed this request to her listeners. Then, a voice arose mysteriously, without a visible source, singing, "I Told Jesus." Kathleen Gatson, the choir's pianist, sang from her piano behind the massive pillars, yet her voice permeated every corner of the church...
Since Navy's pool is too shallow to conduct a three-meter competition, the first diving event was compulsory one-meter dives and the second round was optional diving. "I don't think we've ever seen Dave put together eleven dives the way he did Saturday," Harvard coach Ray Essick said yesterday...
...blacksmith forearms to belt a blocker to the side, and the "push and pull," in which he pushes a guard off balance and then pulls him aside. Greene is an expert at all four techniques. "When Joe stomps you, it's not infuriating," says Steeler Center Ray Mansfield, who faces him in practice. "It's more like frightening. Did you ever see a dog get hold of a snake...