Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspend nuclear tests for one year and try to work out a test-detection agreement with the Soviet Union. Before entering into test-ban negotiations, the U.S. needed to try for answers to some vital questions: What would happen when a nuclear explosion took place in a near-vacuum 300 miles above the earth's surface? What were the prospects of coping with oncoming enemy ballistic missiles by exploding nuclear warheads high above the earth? Could the Soviet Union use high-up explosions to cheat on a test-ban agreement? How much would high-up nuclear explosions disturb radio...
Late one night last week, Moore went alone to the high-altitude chamber. On the control panel outside the 10-ft.-by-30-ft. heavy steel tank, he set the altitude indicator at 73,000 ft., a near vacuum just below the limit of the chamber's air seals. Not in space suit, but holding an oxygen mask, he let himself into the chamber and waited for the air pumps to lower the pressure, take him "up" past the blackout stage, on beyond the sure-death line to 73,000 ft. His body, as if taken by rocket...
Comeback for Tubes. To meet the growing competition of transistors, RCA demonstrated a vacuum tube only one fifteenth as large as general-purpose miniature tubes in mass production. RCA said the thimble-sized "Nuvistor" tube outperforms regular tubes and transistors in higher frequencies and at higher operating temperatures. When commercial production begins next year, prices will be "competitive" with regular tubes and transistors...
...impression which U.S. Theologian Walter M. Horton has described as "respectful mystification." (It was hours after first listening to Tillich, recalls Horton, "that I realized that the word 'waykwoom,' many times repeated, and the key to the whole lecture, was meant to represent the English word 'vacuum.' ") But gradually, Tillich learned to communicate with America's would-be believers. Gradually, Tillich's massive theological system began to take shape...
Moving in the Troops. Into the sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana...