Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to become increasingly convinced that most planets were inhospitable to life. Yet Mars continued to provoke serious speculation, largely because it showed so many characteristics that seemed fascinatingly similar to those of earth. The red planet turned out to have an atmosphere, albeit an extremely thin one. The tilt of its axis (about 24°) is approximately the same as the earth's, thus creating seasonal changes. Its huge white polar caps suggest the presence of ice, and therefore water-a prerequisite for life as human beings know it. It also has large dark areas that grow, like...
...this century, Vladimir Nabokov, master of fiction and of chess (TIME cover, May 23), operates in somewhat the same manner. The film of one of his early works, Laughter in the Dark, eerily reproduces the commonplaces of experience but gives them an irrational tilt. The viewer who accepts the Nabokovian construction can experience an acute problem of reorientation when he steps from the theater into the world...
...transition would span at least several quarters, partly because plants making strategic stockpile items will have to keep running full tilt for a while to rebuild war-depleted inventories. Then, after Pentagon stocks were replenished, about 225,000 jobs at munition factories would be in jeopardy. New contracts-and the task of replacing some of the 2,690 planes and 2,608 helicopters destroyed in Viet Nam-would continue to keep aerospace firms fairly busy. They would not lose much more than $2 billion of their current $9 billion-a-year military aircraft business, and they might lose a great...
...Washington Post. In Springfield, he relearned Lincoln Steffen's dictum that the cities are run on graft (and, now, its sophisticated offspring, urban renewal). In Haiti, he learned that "the real details"--like the fact that a Haitian minister was a pin-ball addict who had the tilt sign turned off whenever he played--were never reported. Back in Washington for a few months, he finally left for the Trib after "covering about my fourth sewer hearing." In '62, he joined the New York paper as a writer-illustrator, pleased to discover it had retained its old-fashioned, friendly newsroom...
When an optical instrument is shaken or moved, two tiny gyroscopes in the Dynalens collar sense the motion and send signals that control miniature electric motors connected to the glass plates at each end of the prism. The motors, which respond almost instantaneously to movements of the optical instrument, tilt the plates to change the shape of the prism, thus bending the incoming light beams just enough to compensate for the motion. The result is a clear and remarkably steady image...