Word: silent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep track of the objects in space-and particularly to detect among them any "dark," or radio-silent, object that might house a nuclear weapon or pose some other threat-the U.S. has developed a highly sophisticated system of surveillance. Each object now in outer space is given its own number and meticulously tracked by radar sensors (which can follow an object as small as a .30-cal. rifle bullet 200 miles into space), computers and special cameras with a range of 50,000 miles. The North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) can tell where every object...
...Eisenhower's "open skies" offer in 1955, loudly complained about these spies-in-the-skies when they were first launched in 1960. But a potentially sticky conflict over aerial espionage was averted when, a couple of years later, the Russians launched their own equivalent, the Cosmos, and fell silent. Last year alone they launched dozens of Cosmos satellites that passed over...
...West's China-watchers awaited with fascination the reaction in Hanoi. The pickings were slim, because Ho Chi Minn's propagandists were largely silent. Yet Hanoi's official newspaper last week obliquely endorsed the concept of a united front of the world's Communist parties for aiding North Viet Nam in the war. Since the united-front concept represents the Soviet view, some experts interpreted Hanoi's statement as a tentative attempt to escape Peking's go-it-alone policy. North Korea's latest statement was more direct: it ripped the Red Chinese...
...York State requires a license for that sort of thing, and it wants him to take its hairdresser exam. "Asinine and obsolete," said Sassoon. "The test requires that I do finger waving and reverse pin curling-things that haven't been used since Gloria Swanson was in silent movies." It wasn't that he couldn't do these things, he added, but that he wouldn't. Responded the New York State secretary of state...
...sits down to await instruction. After a few minutes the section leader gives a brief outline of the course, says when the first paper is due and falls silent. Five, sometimes even ten minutes, pass before the silence is broken. Finally, some brave soul takes the first step toward forming the norms for the group's behavior: "My name is Tom." The machinery of anxiety has launched the group into a series of tense analytic and soul-searching sessions which will leave them unsatisfied, but feeling that they have learned an enormous amount about themselves and interpersonal dynamics...