Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulky picture or cathode-ray tubes used in conventional TV sets, a beam of electrons originates in the stem of the tube and sweeps rapidly to and fro across the tube face. Its intensity is controlled by the signal from the TV station. As the beam hits dots of phosphorescent material in the tube face, they glow with a brightness proportional to the strength of the beam. This rapid action produces at least 25 still pictures per second on the screen, creating the illusion of moving images. In the new Westinghouse system, the images are also formed by producing glowing...
...last begun to pay off, turning the Thames into what may be the cleanest industrial river in the world. Last month, for the first time in 141 years, an 8-lb. 4-oz. adult female salmon was fished up by workers from the screens of a London power station. Presumably, it had migrated up the river to spawn in the now pristine waters. The prize was solemnly taken to the Natural History Museum, which declared it a genuine dead salmon, and scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture dutifully lent their own support to the finding. The discovery of the salmon?...
...began last month with a minor dispute over a change in shifts in one Paris mail-sorting station. But by last week France was facing its worst labor unrest since the protests of May 1968 that nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle. The postal spat quickly developed into a strike that spread to the entire mail system, paralyzing thousands of dependent businesses. In the past fortnight meanwhile, coal miners, railway men, electric-utility workers, hospital employees, customs officials, Paris bus drivers and even veterinarians have walked off their jobs for at least a day. Last week Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski outraged...
...detective," protests Raab, peering through thick glasses at mounds of letters that arrive each week pleading for his services. "I just look for the most reasonable approach to a story." While working for three years as a reporter at WNET, New York's public TV station, Raab dug up enough evidence of illegal practices to close two bogus methadone clinics. He also unearthed the case of Carl De Flumer, sentenced to life for murder in 1946 at the age of 14 and forgotten when state laws concerning juveniles were later changed. As a result of Raab's work...
...cottage distilleries is the influx of legitimate industry into the South, offering an economic alternative to young men who might formerly have opted for the still life. Also, Southerners' tastes have changed. George R. ("Bob") Powell, special agent in charge of the Division of Alcohol, Tax and Firearms station in Wilkesboro, N.C., observes: "You'll notice that even poor people like good liquor these days." Another explanation comes from a seventyish great-grandmother who operates a general store in North Carolina's moonshine capital of Wilkes County: "All these kids want to do these days," she maintains...