Word: specked
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...happening (or if it really is happening) Dr. Hubble does not know. The 100-in. telescope could not see far enough to give him the data he needed. The new 200-incher may show Hubble and his fellow men (who live on an earth that is only a speck of dust in one of the nebulae) whether the universe is "exploding"-or doing something quite different...
...Sickness . . . is caused by very small germs. . . . A lot of them together look like a very small speck. They like the dark, dirty places. A few germs become a lot in a short time. . . . In spit there are too many to think of. . . . No one must spit in the igloo...
...back of Sir Robert's head: a "radar telescope" which will magnify on its scope any object of interest within the range of the beam. The observer at night or in fog can "tune in" a distant speck for better examination...
...stepped a grey, bespectacled man with a grey, correct bearing. He carried a walking stick. In the lapel of his neat tan suit bloomed a flaming carnation. He fussily flicked a speck of dust from his coat, coughed with the conviction of a man swearing, and walked into the Foreign Office's cavernous hall for an interview with Argentina's suave Foreign Minister, Dr. Juan Atilio Bramuglia...
Alpha rays are stopped by clothing, beta rays by slightly thicker materials. But if a tiny speck which generates one of them gets into the body, it may radiate quietly until it has started a cancer or done some quicker damage...