Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sneyd to a. At the Canadian embassy in Lisbon he told the consul: "My name has been misspelled," and was issued a new passport on May 16. Thus, with the two cards and pistol in pocket, he flew off to London and incarceration at Cannon Row police station, a stone's throw from...
What will you remember about your senior year at Harvard? The gloom of December when the war got worse, when draft calls increased, when your thesis tumbled from your frostbitten fingers like a heavy stone and the future looked as dead as the icy eyes on a frozen pigeon which lay in the trash claws outstretched, stiff, scratching the clouds--too cold to even interest the maggots...
Also: Frank M. Snowden, III; Thomas G. Speer; D. Warren Steel; Scott N. Steketee; Jay B. Stephens; Howard Stern; Richard A. Stone; Michael L. Tabak; Howard B. Tarko; David Thomas, III; Albert J. Turco; James C. Turner; William J. Walderman; Stephen M. Waters; Randall D. Weiss; Peter F. Weller; John V. Whitbeck; Thomas S. Williamson, Jr., Peter M. Winkler; Erik O. Wright...
...deflected by a single molecule of air. Even so, the new electron gun devised by Westinghouse Physicist Berthold Schumacher packs so much power that it can shoot its way through the world's hardest rock. It points the way for cheap and relatively simple tools for quarrying stone, mining minerals or even carving tunnels through mountains...
...sixteenth of an inch, the electron beam, says Schumacher, can cut iron bars, granite blocks or slabs of concrete. Only requirement is that the gun be kept virtually on top of its target. From a half inch out, it can burrow up to four inches into the toughest stone in less than a minute. It also works underwater, has no recoil, and does its job in uncanny quiet. With his 9-kw. laboratory model for a prototype, says Schumacher, he could easily build a 100-kw. version capable of cutting a wide electronic swath for a variety of industries...