Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space fever renews itself before daylight each morning, when long necklaces of auto headlights form along the highways that lead to Cape Canaveral's heavily guarded gates. Security guards check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...texts and teaching techniques lag as much as half a century behind the times. Worse yet, physics is usually presented as a series of unrelated subjects, e.g., mechanics, heat, electricity. The committee's ambitious goal: a program that explores and relates such basics of modern physics as the wave concept and submicroscopic particles...
When a re-entry body hits the atmosphere at 13,000 m.p.h.. a shock wave forms a few inches ahead of it. Between the wave and the body is a fast-flowing layer of air heated to something like 12,000° F. At this temperature about 2% of the air's atoms are ionized, i.e., broken into electrons and positively charged ions. The mixture, which physicists call a plasma, is a conductor of electricity...
During the wave of rapes and stabbings in New York City schools this winter, the South's segregationist dailies pounced jubilantly on the story as a Yankee-sent sermon on the evils of mixing the races in the classroom. When a Brooklyn principal killed himself during a grand jury investigation of violence at his junior high school (TIME, Feb. 19), Mississippi's extremist Jackson Daily News front-paged the story with a picture of a Negro policeman guarding the school. Caption: "Mixed school violence led to this...
...this touched off a wave of frenzied price cutting in many cities, as everyone tried to undercut the competition. Manhattan stores sold $39.95 G.E. clock radios for $27.95; Los Angeles retailers chopped waffle irons from $22.95 to $15.88; Chicago's Sol Polk cut his discount prices on electric skillets from $12.95 to $9.98, and hurried to order another 10,000 small appliances. Yet in many other U.S. cities, the news stirred hardly a ripple. In Washington, D.C., Detroit, Dallas, Denver and dozens of other markets, Fair Trade on these items has long since died. Said a Milwaukee department-store...