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Word: tracers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death in New Orleans | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...told the Oakland computer to print out a program for plotting complex aerospace data in graph form. His company presumably planned to market the program, which was valued at $12,000 or more, to the Oakland firm's own customers. He was caught through a telephone company tracer and received a suspended sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS: Key-Punch Crooks | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse unleashes in Pippin is the spirit that flung railroads across a continent and raised skyscrapers to rake the heavens. At least that is the way you feel as you watch his dancers arc across the stage like tracer bullets. ∎T.E.Kalem

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Medieval Hippie | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...three researchers confirmed the fact that viral RNA material was indeed producing its own DNA. They labelled four chemical building blocks of DNA with a radioactive isotope of hydrogen called tritium. After mixing the building blocks with viral RNA, the "tracer" element appeared in what was chemically identified as DNA. Thus it was apparent that the RNA had assembled the blocks to form DNA in its own image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upsetting Dogma | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

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