Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clutching his breast, slapping, clenching and conjoining his big hands to pound home his points, toying with his glasses and abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while, an Army Signal Corpsman crouched unseen behind the lectern, reeling out microphone cord when Johnson wandered to the edge of the stage and making sure that he did not trip himself...
...signal from earth it fired its three vernier engines, rose ten feet from the surface and then landed again, eight feet from its original site. It was the first rocket-powered takeoff from the face of the moon...
...method uses "pure" sound waves of a single frequency that are bounced off the subject and picked up by one or more scanning microphones. At the same time, a sound signal of the same frequency is transmitted directly to the microphones. The two tones-reflected and direct-interfere with each other in a complex sound pattern that is, in effect, an acoustical "picture" of the object being scanned. The mixed pattern of sound is transmitted as electrical en rgy from the microphones to an oscilloscope-similar to a television picture tube. The oscilloscope then converts the electrical energy into light...
...rescue of U.S. scientists, who had been at a loss to explain preliminary Venus 4 reports that there was no nitrogen in the Venusian atmosphere (nitrogen accounts for 78% of terrestrial air). Backing off slightly, the Soviet scientists explained that the nitrogen-gas analyzer aboard the capsule had a "signal-detection threshold" of 7%; thus it would have been unable to detect smaller percentages...
...Increase. "The financial community," says Executive Vice President Ralph F. Leach of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., "needs a strong signal to break the inflationary psychology which dominates its thinking. Seeds of disaster have been sown." Like many other bankers and economists, Leach insists that both federal spending cuts and a tax increase have become "absolutely imperative" to avoid financial chaos. Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve Board would clamp down on credit. But the Treasury's need to finance at least another $5 billion of federal deficit by year's end-and much more in 1968-locks...