Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be ionized-broken into electrically charged particles-by the sun's radiation. So they furnished their space probes with ion traps: simple instruments that give electrical signals whenever a charged particle hits them. The Soviet moon probe launched on Sept. 12, 1959 carried four traps adjusted to respond to ions of different energies, and it telemetered 12,000 measurements back to the earth...
...Barnstorming through his native New England, he encountered larger and more enthusiastic crowds at every airport and rally. (In Manchester, N.H. his pregnant wife Jackie prudently left the entourage and went home because of the crushing crowds and fast-stepping pace.) With each new audience, he seemed to respond more enthusiastically, to work up more steam. At one point he talked as though the rest of the nation wasn't listening, hinting broadly that trade protectionism could solve New England's industrial decline-an attitude quite different from the Democratic low tariff stance set by F.D.R. Said Kennedy...
...market advance, but the market still needs a push from improved economic conditions to pick up momentum. With the big institutional investors (mutual funds, insurance companies) now returning to the market and the market's basic psychology improving, many Wall Streeters believe that the market is ready to respond to favorable news, take off on a sustained advance to new highs. Says Gerald S. Colby, partner of Boston's du Pont, Homsey & Co.: "The market is seeing better business ahead. It does not care what the economists are saying today. It is currently consolidating to go through...
Five-Minute Peace. Washington officials, who had expected a ranting fanatic, found instead a poised, almost impassive, man who could respond politely and correctly in slightly accented French to Herter's welcoming speech without recourse to notes or text, who faced a roomful of U.S. correspondents and fielded their sharpest questions with calm confidence, urbanely parried questions he did not choose to answer. Sometimes, he spoke with disarming candor. "I was sitting around my office with the country exploding around me," he explained. "It took me just five seconds to decide that the only place...
...oceans narrowed from thousands of miles to 30 minutes. The continental U.S. came within reach of a distant enemy firing from his own shore. On Oct. 4 that same year. Sputnik I soared into orbit. Official Washington, once it got over the shock, set about finding effective ways to respond to the increased Russian capabilities...