Word: shoran
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Unlike the radar bombsight, which has to "see" its target by means of radar waves, Shoran (Short Range Air Navigation) can put bombs on a target that has not been seen at all. It needs nothing but an accurate map with the target marked. Last week the Air Force announced that it has begun to use Shoran in Korea...
Commander Carl I. Aslakson of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently noted that a long series of land measurements made by shoran (a kind of radar) had gone wrong. Each measurement went wrong by the same small percentage. The measurers checked their instruments, checked their procedures. Everything was shipshape. The only thing left to account for the errors was the speed of light itself. With a guilty feeling and bated breaths, they shaded the sacred figure a tiny bit and made the measurements again. Everything came out exactly right...
...Shoran Singha, a turbaned Christian Indian added: "We have got to get rid of the idea that God sent the white man to rule the black...