Word: reflecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that could be used to relay radio microwaves around the curve of the earth. But even before the first rocket of the Air Force Project West Ford blasted off its pad, the protests of outraged scientists soared into orbit. Metal wires, the world's astronomers warned, would also reflect sunlight, fogging the photographic plates of optical telescopes. They would foul up radio astronomy by reflecting man-made radio waves and masquerading as distant stars or galaxies...
...which the idea of equality, while hardly realized in concrete terms, has been almost universally accepted as an ethical norm towards which society must, will and can move. The personal experiences of African and American Negroes--and, in particular, the ways in which oppression has been experienced--cannot but reflect these striking differences in their social, economic, and political circumstances. It is difficult to see what overriding bond of experience American Negroes have with Africans which ties them closer to Africa than to their native land, or should cause them to reject equally close collaboration with other groups which have...
...Sunday Mirror, putting on a fresh coat of makeup and dedicating itself to becoming the paper for "more SIGNIFICANT weekend reading," the Mirror claimed an immediate, thumping circulation increase of 150,000. Said Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, 49: "The intention of the Sunday Mirror is to try to reflect more accurately the disturbing thoughts in the minds of people...
...says, and Britons no longer need titillation from the tabloids. To prove the point, one Mirror executive held up a picture of a demurely necklined deb and declared: "I defy you to find her cleavage." Nobody bothered to search, for the Mirror can still be counted on to reflect racier stuff. Only last week it ran a picture of Kim Novak that posed no plunging-neckline problem because there was no neckline. In fact, there were no clothes...
This daring parable of guilt builds up to a pitch that is frightfully psychological but not very convincing. At one especially tense point, a character notices "a roaring in his ears which could not be the sea." The reader may well reflect that indeed it is not the sea, but the prose...