Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never wanted to be a fighter," he says. "I wanted to be a baseball player. This is a funny business. The guy you're hitting hasn't done anything to you, but you have to hit him anyway." Three years ago, Griffith lost his temper in the ring-when Benny Paret noted Emile's tight pants and his singsong Virgin Islands speech and questioned his masculinity. Paret died of brain injuries in that fight, and Griffith has brooded ever since over the massacre. "I try to think it was fate," he says. "I try real hard...
...French, their sense of dignity offended by these nēgriers modernes (modern slave traders), have been trying to close down the underground railroad ever since it began. They have arrested 220 minor passeurs, and recently picked up a man they believe is one of the leaders of the ring. Last week the French police began a major offensive: from the Interior Ministry came orders to throw all available men into border patrols and road checks throughout southwestern France. "One can only condemn these smugglers," said an outraged French official. "It is an occupation for men who have lost their...
...great ring of Alphonsus, 75 miles in diameter, grew immensely. A new picture appeared every five seconds; the famous rills (cracks visible to astronomers on earth) stood out more plainly than ever. New rills appeared, some of them with little craters strung along them like beads. Between them, the floor of Alphonsus, which looks smooth from the distant earth, turned out to be spotted with craters, some single, others in lines, a few showing dark halos...
...machine what to do with its information in order to achieve a desired result. As instructions are fed to the computer in this special language, the machine sends electric impulses coursing through its innards at the speed of light (186,300 miles per second), checking on each metal ring to see if it contains the information sought...
Basically, each metal ring, activated by the electric impulse answers 1 or 0, meaning that it either does or does not represent a portion of the binary numeral sought. If the computer wishes to use the number 87, for example, it might get positive responses from the rings that made up the numbers 1, 2, 4, 16 and 64-for a total of 87-while receiving negative responses from the other rings. In a vast series of such instantaneous actions, thousands of transistors in the machine turn on and off in response to the electric impulses until the machine...