Word: wave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Einstein pointed out that an atom or molecule stimulated by an electro-magnetic wave (light, for example) would give off a basic unit of light called the photon, which would have the same wave length as the stimulating wave. A number of subsequent experiments proved Einstein correct. But not until 1958 did Physicists Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes describe a device that they thought would be able to stimulate molecules of gas confined in a cylinder until they gave off photons in an intense and powerful stream. Their device was a variation of Townes's earlier Nobel Prizewinning invention...
American Pinpoints. Unlike ordinary "white" light from an incandescent bulb, which is a mixture of all colors, and thus of many different wave lengths traveling in divergent directions, laser light is what scientists call "coherent." It emerges from the rod in rays that are parallel; it is all of the same wave length, and it is all in phase or in step, each ray reinforcing the others, like oarsmen in a superbly trained crew...
...extra tax wallop. At a time when job opportunities for the poor must be broadened, unemployment may increase as a result of belt tightening by both Government and private enterprise. With contracts in the steel, shipping and aerospace industries due to expire in the next few months, a wave of serious strikes could brake the economy further. Nor is the rate of consumer-price increases likely to decline for several months...
McGinniss' immediate reaction was echoed by much of the rest of the press: many columnists and editorial writers quickly decided that the U.S. was consumed with violence, with sickness. Then, last week, after the first wave of dismay had passed, the press began to have some sober second thoughts. McGinniss' own paper, in fact, took him to task in an editorial for "responding immaturely and emotionally to the overwhelming horror of the moment. We vigorously condemn his blasphemy of America...
...idea is a sort of American defense mechanism; these dreadful things having happened, some Americans are anxious to regain their self-regard and the respect of others, and therefore hurry to accept the responsibility for awful events." It may be, agreed David Broder in the Washington Post, that the wave of assassinations heralds a "social breakdown," but it "seems to me a form of escapism to throw up our hands, and, like a chorus of Miniver Cheevy's, 'weep that we were ever born.' " Broder proposed acting instead of weeping. One of the first acts urged...