Word: snarking
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...Even in the genuine realms of national security, the Defense Department and the Atomic Energy Commission have withheld from the U.S. public information already available to the Russians. For example, more than a year after the Northrop Snark and Bell Rascal guided missiles had been parked at public airports for all to see, the Pentagon was still trying to keep their photographs out of print...
Hardly since The Hunting of the Snark had there been such a quest. But by last week the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty had found and installed its first permanent dean and was ready to start moving into place among the great seminaries...
...Three strategic intercontinental missiles, for long-range striking power, are under accelerated development. "These are the Navaho, the Snark and the Atlas, . . . Such missiles [as the Atlas] approaching a target present the enemy with an incredibly-and almost hopelessly-difficult defensive...
Working also with such missile prototypes as the Northrop "Snark" and the North American "Navaho" (which have intercontinental range, but at speeds only comparable to current bomber types), the U.S. may be catching up. The prospect is that by 1960 both the U.S. and the Soviet Union will have missiles that can carry hydrogen pay loads at 10,000 m.p.h. with a range of some 5,000 miles...
...fresh minted. His great virtue as an inspirer of young men lies in the extraordinary egocentric faith he has in his own intuitions; as a scientist, Bucky often has not much more quality than Lewis Carroll's Bellman, in The Hunting of the Snark, whose assertion was that what he said three times was true, but he can relate anything in the world to anything else, and spin such long-chain molecules of thought that professors to whom a house is a house would rather maintain a purse-lipped reserve than openly contradict...