Word: travelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prattling Particles. Radios and radars were also alert. Any nuclear explosion sets off a great variety of electromagnetic waves, some of which are in the radio segment of the spectrum. They travel great distances, guided around the curve of the earth by ionized layers in the upper atmosphere, and they are not difficult to detect. The explosion-born pulse of radio waves disappears quickly, but another radio effect lingers on. As the mushroom cloud climbs into the stratosphere, its radioactivity releases a vast number of electrons that ionize a mass of air and turn it into a radio wave reflector...
...lifts his eyes above earth-gashing highway departments and bovine people licking corporate salt, he sees the rockets of the space age that he dreamed of in Waukegan as a little boy. "This is mankind's chance to be immortal," he says. "We're going to travel into space and live forever. Our children's children shall live a million miles away. It took us one billion years to form a spinal cord, and now we're going to leave this shore and go off to another planet. It's like being there...
...civil rights revolution has raised sharp questions. Where can a Mississippi Negro, for example, seek relief if the state denies him a fair trial and a federal judge refuses to listen? Must he travel the long road through the state courts to the U.S. Supreme Court? All over the South, arrested civil rights workers have complained that the tradition of immediate remand denies them federal hearings in cases of obviously violated constitutional rights. The answer to their complaint is Title IX of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which now permits remands to be appealed to U.S. courts of appeals...
...President will travel by motorcade to Post Office Square at the corner of Congress St. and Milk St., where he is scheduled to address a rally at 5 p.m. He will depart for Pittsburgh...
...sewers alone, but all the things that offend the typical tourist in Spain -stalled trains, unpredictable electricity, fire engines screaming like "Amazon howling monkeys"-delight Honor Tracy in this brief and lively travel book. She is entertained by what most tourists never even notice: "The men maintained their usual impassive demeanor" and, dressed in corduroy suits and broad black hats, looked "out from the dusty taverns hour after hour, silent, neither drinking nor playing cards, as if merely waiting for the end of the world...