Word: slender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane to collect $55,000 in insurance on his wife and children ($25,000 from the vending machines and $10,000 on each passenger, carried by the airline). Later, Betty Grant, a plump woman with an upswept hairdo, got some more news: her husband had promised to marry a slender, red-haired American Airlines stewardess named Elizabeth Soumela, who knew nothing of his plans to kill his family, and thought his divorce was about to come through. In New York, a 32-year-old private secretary identified Grant as the father of her three-year-old baby, and said that...
...languages are carried by 38 short-wave transmitters in the U.S. and 19 relay stations at Woofferton (England), Munich, Tangier, Salonika, Honolulu and Manila. Voice stations are located in some exotic places: the transmitter in Tangier stands on a sultan's former hunting domain, and the slender blue-and-white transmitters near Manila rise elegantly from damp rice paddies. In a twice-daily air assault against Russian jamming, the Voice teams up with some 30 BBC transmitters. Voice broadcasts are also carried by domestic stations in more than 50 countries, including the French government network. The Voice...
...George Larrimore, a Gushing woman who speaks Ukrainian, came often to reassure Prowska and Jackin. Still Prowska drew a slender forefinger across her throat. "Mother, brothers, sisters, father kaput," she would...
...lens focuses the scene being viewed on the front side of the photoconductor. A slender beam of electrons from an "electron gun" scans the rear side of the photo-conductor. When the electrons hit a brightly lighted area, a lot of them pass through. When they hit dark parts, only a few of them pass through. The transparent conducting layer collects the escaping electrons and passes them on in the form of a "video" current whose rapid fluctuations represent the light and shade of the picture. An ordinary television set turns the current into a copy of the scene which...
When the fattened-up electrons are making their last turn around the tube, they are deflected by special magnets and made to strike a tungsten target, knocking out of it a slender beam of enormously powerful X rays. In effect, a betatron is an outsized X-ray tube; the X. rays are its desirable product...