Word: shoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them will come fast-expanding concentric shells of radioactive beta particles (electrons), alpha particles (charged helium nuclei) and neutrons. Bringing up the rear will be the hot gases of the ball of fire, which will expand indefinitely. Some of the residue of an explosion above the atmosphere will presumably shoot out of the solar system. But the amount of lethal fallout on the earth's surface will probably be negligible, since by the time the radioactive particles descend to earth, they will be widely dispersed in both time and geography...
...clear of a certain point just south of the predominantly Moslem port of Tripoli. Reason: a Nasserite rebel sniper holed up there had scored so many hits on Navy planes with .30-and .50-cal. ammunition that Navy pilots were calling him "Annie Oakley." Navy orders: "Don't shoot back." What if Navy planes got shot down? Said a Sixth Fleet air officer: "I guess we would order them to fly higher...
...elements of Admiral Holloway's power: 6,100 marines and 3,100 Army airborne troops, installed on a secure beachhead equipped to shoot anything from obsolete Mi rifles to atomic-rocket projectiles; the 76-ship, 35,000-man Sixth Fleet offshore, whose Skyraiders could take an A-bomb from Beirut to Moscow; the Air Force Tactical Air Command's 200-plane composite task force-Douglas B66 and Martin 6-57 light jet bombers. North American F-iooD fighter-bombers and McDonnell F-IOI fighters-at nearby Adana, Turkey, an atomic-and conventional-armed reminder of the mighty, miles...
...last fortnight, Khrushchev boasted that he had weapons that could turn the Sixth Fleet into "coffins of molten steel for its sailors," but Khrushchev's Security Chief Ivan Serov nonetheless warned Nasser to fly home overland, because "your plane dare not fly over the sea because they could shoot it down with rockets...
...great trick to shoot radio waves at the moon and get a faint echo. The Signal Corps did it first in 1946, and even radio hams do it now. But dependable communication by lunar reflection is harder. The Signal Corps and its collaborator, Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, use ultrashort waves (810 megacycles, 37 cm.) because they pass without much loss of energy through the ionized layers in the high atmosphere...