Word: spooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the capture of Pueblo, Kim went a long way toward achieving one of his goals. He also had possession of a U.S. spook ship packed with supersecret gear and if he did not have Lyndon Johnson for burning, he did have the hapless Commander Bucher. Nobody can be certain what happened to Bucher, but the Pyongyang regime was plainly making every effort to exploit him. It was a sad conclusion to Lloyd Bucher's first command...
Pueblo's unprepossessing, 179-ft.-long hull is fitted out with the latest in sophisticated ELINT equipment-globe-girdling single-side-band radio, hyperaccurate radars, sonars and navigation instruments. Another primary aim of the "spook ships"-espionage satellites like Samos and spy planes like the U-2 -is to be "painted" or "illuminated" by enemy radar, whose beams fall on the ship's sensitive receivers. Those signals are taped and sent back to Washington for detailed analysis. By charting radar pulse repetition rates and frequencies, intelligence officers can identify the electronic signalings of known radar systems and thus...
...Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) is hopping mad about The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck. Alleging that his U.S. producers cut 19 minutes of footage and otherwise tampered with his handiwork, he sputters: "What I made was a funny, spook fairy tale, and this is a sort of Transylvanian Beverly Hillbillies...
Before AAAAS ("Afro") was organized, standard procedure was for Negroes, passing one another in the Yard, to cast down their eyes or become immediately engrossed with tying their shoelaces. Kilson would address everyone as "Hey spook! Hey Negro!" and people began looking up and saying "Hi," as if they had been caught stealing cookies...
Before AAAAS ("Afro") was organized, standard procedure was for Negroes, passing one another in the Yard, to cast down their eyes or become immediately engrossed with tying their shoelaces. Kilson would address everyone as "Hey spook! Hey Negro!" and people began looking looking up and saying "Hi," as if they had been caught stealing cookies...