Word: waving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underground blast sets up only compression or "P" waves, with very little of the shear and surface ("S") waves that normally accompany a natural underground disturbance. As a result, the seismographs detect only what Leet terms "the lonesome P." an energetic compression wave which lacks the shear and surface waves that usualy follow...
...Fourth of July, and Robert David Mullins, the Salt Lake City Deseret News correspondent in Price, Utah, a mining town 125 miles south of the state capital, was celebrating the holiday by watching his four-year-old daughter wave sparklers in the warm desert evening. Then the phone rang. Murder had been done in Monticello, a tiny village 150 miles away. Correspondent Mullins, whose beat covers four counties and 17,488 sq. mi., is thoroughly conditioned to long-distance assignments; he wasted no time getting to work...
...there, but those reflected by the moon's rough, dark surface scattered widely. Only a few of them bounced back to Lincoln Lab. Bunched together by a 48-in. telescope, the returning photons were sent through a filter that passed only light of the laser's wave length. Then the photons were picked up by a sensitive photocell...
...miles in error. Dr. Lowther hopes to clear up this unhappy situation by lofting a small satellite into an orbit around the sun. Lowther's satellite would carry extremely sensitive radio equipment to amplify signals from earth and send them back again on a slightly different wave length. This sophisticated radar system would make no use of the speed of light in its measurements. The distance from the earth to the satellite would be calculated in actual wave lengths of radio energy with an error of only...
...response mechanism has not always been infallible. In 1957, when G.M.'s committees might have been concerned with the mounting sales of compacts, they decided instead that the wave of the future lay in Chrysler's finny "Forward Look" cars. G.M. rushed into a crash restyling program, came up with spangled 1959 models that, by G.M. standards, sold poorly. Even more serious were the design troubles of the Buick division in the late 1950s. Sales plummeted, and Buick's dip was not corrected until the System rushed in to provide Buick with new management and new engineers...