Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their rough but unique closeup of Venus stems from 17 radar probes with NASA's 210-ft. dish antenna at Goldstone, Calif., last summer. At that time Venus was only 26 million miles from the earth. Since then, the scientists have been "drawing" a map by feeding their electronic findings into a computer. The result shows three blotches of extremely rough terrain, which Goldstein presumes are mountains, moonlike craters or fields of boulders...
...even that faint feedback carries a definite message. If the signals bounce back polarized-in other words, with their electric fields reversed-they indicate rough terrain. Unpolarized echoes, on the other hand, mean smooth surfaces. In either case, the target areas are pinpointed by a system of coordinates similar to latitude and longitude. One coordinate is located simply by clocking the signal: the quicker it bounces back, the closer the bounce-back point is to that part of Venus nearest to Earth...
George Washington's Vixen. Negroes who are dissatisfied with Ebony's moneymaking nonmilitancy need only turn to Johnson's money-losing Negro Digest-a strenuous voice of Black Power. Writing that is roughly eloquent mingles with writing that is just plain rough. "Every white throat cut is a success in itself," was one writer's contribution to racial amity. Digest was one of the first publications to take exception to The Confessions of Nat Turner on the ground that White Novelist William Styron was incapable of putting himself inside the skin of a 19th century Negro...
...this work is necessary, says McKusick, because to treat or prevent dwarfism it first must be clearly defined. That is not as easy as it sounds. Beyond the rough classification of midgets as people of short but otherwise normal body build, and dwarfs as having some other physical abnormality in addition to short stature, McKusick lists 20 different conditions as causes of subnormal growth. Among the conventioneers, he found at least one representative of almost all the types, and some who appeared to fit no known category, suggesting that the classification table will now have to be extended...
...pattern that it serves as antidote to the asphalt rather than continuation." Therefore the traffic islands ought to be paved with one of the many available materials which are at once visually interesting, less heat retentive than macadam and as or more functional and durable. Alternations of smooth and rough concrete, granite, cobblestones, bricks and fieldstone offer endless possibilities for pleasing surfaces and patterns...