Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing like a relay satellite was within the reach of the best technology of 1945, but the needed elements were developed as if on cue. Transistors (invented in 1948) and other solid-state electronic devices replaced vacuum tubes, which would have been too bulky, short-lived and power-hungry for use in satellites. High-power rockets were spawned by the U.S.-Soviet race for long-range ballistic missiles. High-speed electronic computers appeared just in time to take over the all-but-impossible task of calculating orbits, solving complex equations in split seconds...
...well as providing an inspiring alternative to the congested lunch-counters in the square, a balcony picnic ground might stir the beginnings of a new kind of college spirit to fill the vacuum left by the decline of the loyalty to Harvard that used to thrive on college songs, rivalries with Yale and ivy walls...
...when four gunmen intercepted his car on a lonely road outside the capital and riddled him with shotgun and pistol fire. In the four years since, the Dominican Republic has suffered four coups and five changes of government, trying to find its way out of the political vacuum created by Trujillo's death. Democracy is still hardly more than a word in a land that has never known any law save force...
...what he was talking about. In a House speech, he recalled how, during the 14 months between John Kennedy's assassination and Lyndon Johnson's inauguration for a full term, McCormack himself was next in line.* "A matter of great concern to me," he said, "was the vacuum which existed in the subject of determining inability of the occupant of the White House, if and when that should arise...
...house. In Goldwater, Mich., a four-inch piece of straw flew like a steel-tipped arrow and imbedded itself in a woman's neck. In Strongsville, Ohio, near Cleveland, a baby was sucked out of a house and hurled to its death-still in its bassinet. The same vacuum pressure pulled the wedding ring from the finger of the baby's mother...