Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change at all in thousands or millions of years. It is based on the convenient fact that atoms of cesium vibrate at an absolutely constant rate: about 9,200 million times per second. A cesium "clock" has neither a face nor hands. Instead, cesium atoms are shot down a vacuum tube, and radio waves are directed across the cesium beam. When the radio waves are at precisely the frequency at which cesium vibrates, they are absorbed. The operator of the cesium clock need only tune his waves until he gets absorption. Then he will know accurately the frequency (i.e., vibrations...
...Bureau of Narcotics. TV is in the hands of "lentilheaded sponsors' wives" and represents "some sort of gargantuan hoax," with one or two exceptions. (His own talk program, Alex in Wonderland, which is now being syndicated nationally, "is as refreshing as a breath of stale air in a vacuum.") As for people in general, they are "adenoidal baboons" caught in life's "erratically op erated sausage machine...
...divinity; instead of being "wholly other," God's deity, he feels, has meaning and power only in the context of "His dialogue with man, and thus in His togetherness with man . . . Who God is and what He is in His deity He proves and reveals not in a vacuum as a divine being-for-Himself, but precisely and authentically in the fact that He exists, speaks, and acts as the partner of man, though of course as the absolutely superior partner...
...Lockheed by Bell Aircraft Corp., the Agena rocket has been used in its original single-shot version as the second stage of the Thor rocket, which has successfully injected six of the eight Discoverer satellites into polar orbits. The Agena is designed to ignite when high in the vacuum of space. This is not easy because few fuels will ignite in a vacuum. Bell gets around the problem by using hypergolic fuels (unsymmetrical dime-thylhydrazine and inhibited red fuming nitric acid) that ignite spontaneously as soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns out, a small charge...
...measure visual defects, prescribe for them and fit lenses. Then there are the opticians. The ophthalmologists generally regard the other groups as journeymen technicians. But most ophthalmologists have been slow to see the potential demand for contact lenses, or their possible advantages; so the optometrists have filled the vacuum...