Word: static
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Notes on the Demise of Charon" by Sandy Kaye has precise sounds and three minutely detailed images and is static. The short story by Mary Kaye, too highly stylized, provokes no emotions except near the very...
...rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more power (500,000 h.p.) at full speed than the carrier Forrestal...
...fulsome female voice delivered these lyrics, along with much static, from a speaker truck plastered with Furcolo signs...
...charged Russian advertisers with "bashfulness" where prices are concerned: "It must be said that.in most cases the ad is silent about the cost of the goods it advertises, although this question is of great interest to the customer." And window displays are hopeless. Either they are too static, showing nothing but pyramiding cans of meat and vegetables, or they are unchanged from year to year, or-even worse-they do not correspond to what is available in the store. Lamented Sovetskaya Kultura...
This system, worked out theoretically, worked like a charm in actual fact, the Navy announced last week. It was tested last July over the coast of Georgia. The usual tactic was to attach a package of 1-2 Ibs. of carbon black to a static line and toss it out of an airplane flying through the top of a cloud. When the slack snapped out of the line, the package broke open, releasing the carbon black. Seven clouds out of seven tested dissipated entirely in 2½ to 20 minutes...