Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Escaping into the firing chamber through a valve, a jet of heated air strikes and ignites the propellant, which pushes the missile through the barrel (see diagram). Because the heated air helps the propellant to oxidize completely, there are no unburned traces left to foul the barrel. V-L test rifles have been fired up to 50,000 times without cleaning or other maintenance...
...detector tests, said NBC, had cast doubt on the testimony of two key witnesses: Vernon Bundy, a 29-year-old narcotics addict, and Perry Raymond Russo, 26, an insurance salesman. A test given Bundy "indicated he was lying," said NBC Anchorman Frank McGee, and "New Orleans Assistant District Attorney Charles Ward was informed of this." Though Ward told Garrison that "in view of the lie-detector test, Bundy should not be allowed to testify," he was overruled...
Instructions Included. The test seems to be working well, according to the distributor, Businessman Ram Saran Dass. Packets of the contraceptives are conspicuously hung up in groceries and betel-nut shops, and they are sold alongside candy, soda, neckties and other household items. All display India's ubiquitous family-planning emblem-a red triangle around a drawing of a family of four, the official ideal. The condoms carry the brand name Nirodh, a Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet...
Obscenity Quagmire. The four justices therefore upheld Butts. They were joined by Chief Justice Warren, who found that the Post, unlike A.P., had been guilty of "actual malice." To dissenting Justice Black, any test of "unreasonable conduct" on the part of publishers, as promulgated by Harlan, seemed a promise of new problems. "If this precedent is followed," warned Black, "it means that we must in all libel cases hereafter weigh the facts and hold that all papers and magazines guilty of gross writing or reporting are constitutionally liable, while they are not, if the quality of the reporting is approved...
...Middle East war was the Israeli-intercepted radio-telephone conversation between Egypt's President Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein, as they conspired to save face by blaming their disastrous defeat on U.S. and British air intervention. But was the identity of the voices firmly established? To test this point, London's Daily Telegraph submitted a recorded tape of the Nasser-Hussein talk to U.S. Physicist Lawrence Kersta, president of Voice-print Laboratories, Inc., in Somerville, N.J. Along with the tape went a two-year-old CBS News recording of what was known to be Nasser...