Word: watt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough target to hit, for it is only 3,010 miles in diameter, not very much bigger than the moon, and its orbit keeps it close to the troublesome sun. When Goldstone's radar waves set out for Mercury, they had an effective strength of 25 billion watts. By the time they straggled back, they mustered only five ten-thousandths of a billionth of a billionth of a watt. They had lost the even regularity of oscillation with which they had started, and now they were wiggling wildly because of the beatings they had taken on the surface...
Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff...
...heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor's select group of flimsily clad dancing girls writhe to the tootles of the Imperial Bodyguard Band...
Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during the bloodiest fighting of World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff...
Fire from the Left. As Watt notes, a great army is not demoralized in a day, nor for purely military reasons. The politicians hated the generals, the generals hated the politicians, and the politicians themselves were divided behind the faqade of a coalition government. The extreme French left, for example, at the height of the war bombarded the trenches with peace pamphlets urging troops to rise up and join with their German brothers in ending the bloodshed...