Word: spew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Nike Zeus system will work well enough to justify its cost (nearly $900 million). They point out that a station can be saturated by coveys of attacking missiles arriving at the same instant. A simpler enemy stunt, the critics say, would be to make a single missile spew out electronic decoys that would look like warheads to the discrimination radar. Then most of the defending rockets that roared into space would waste their nuclear thunder...
...between Minneapolis and St. Paul. The campus is an architectural hodgepodge dominated by a football arena seating 65,000. Drawing heavily on the state's population hub, it has 23 parking lots for 7,000 cars. Like lunch-bound auto workers, khaki-clad boys and white-sneakered girls spew out of classrooms to the clang of bells at 20 minutes past every hour, and since 1949 the sidewalks have been widened by four feet to keep people from butting each other into the shrubbery...
...lost; the characters have become stereotyped. They no longer have faith, they only have problems. Dickie Amsterdam is the most despicable "hero" to appear in a long time, and Marjorie Morningstar's plight is hardly worth the effort. This theme of assimilation gives the Jewish author a chance to spew out all his anger at being born a Jew, at being, in some sense, alienated from the rest of society. The cast of characters is always the same: the old fashioned parents, a member of the family who habitually gets drunk at the Seder, another relative who is, embarrassingly enough...
...getting jaded, U.S. satellites are just getting really useful. Last week, three years to the day after the Russians launched their era-opening Sputnik I, a U.S. Army communications satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral with little fanfare, went into orbit and calmly began to receive, store and spew back a stream of voice and Teletype messages sent up from the earth. Courier 1B is a 51-in.. 500-lb. sphere containing 300 lbs. of electronic apparatus. Developed by the Army Signal Corps, its surface is spangled with 19,152 solar cells, which look like bluish safety-razor blades...