Word: specking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny New Hampshire (pop. 536,000) is normally little more than a speck on the politicians' map of the U.S. It will send numerically unimportant delegations to the national political conventions; 14 to the Republican, eight to the Democratic. But last week politicians and pundits from coast to coast were carefully adjusting their fine tuning to get a good, 21-in. view of what is going on there. On March 11, New Hampshire will have the first presidential preference primary of 1952. It will be the first big test of Eisenhower's voter appeal v. Taft...
Between the Atoms. In an ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum. There, unhampered by clogging air, they dance around obediently in response to electrical forces provided to act upon them. A transistor has no filament or vacuum, only a speck of hard germanium cut from a silvery crystal. But the mobile electrons are there, flashing through the empty channels between the ordered atoms of the crystal fragment...
...noses waits day & night for the summons to take the air. They are "all-weather interceptors" (Lockheed F-94s of the 52nd Fighter All-Weather Wing), ready to leap at a moment's notice into action against an enemy invader. The signal they are waiting for is a speck on a radarscope, picked up perhaps in Newfoundland or on a ship at sea. If the Russians come over the pole or Greenland (the shortest route), interceptors from New England bases will be first in the air. If they come over the Atlantic, McGuire will "scramble" to meet them...
...bombs. The chemical separation process, accomplished by remote control from behind thick shields, results in a crude mixture of fission products and nonradioactive chemicals. Radioactivity of the mixture varies, but may be as high as 1,000 curies* per lb.-about twice as active as radium, the smallest visible speck of which is dangerous. Further refining raises the activity to 5,000 or 10,000 curies per lb. Stanford Institute believes that the crude stuff can be marketed for 10? to $1.00 per curie. (The present price of radium: $16,000 per curie...
...through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...