Word: whip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatically rotating antenna. In a bugged room, its circuits will lock on to offending transmitters, its warning lights will blink and its antenna will point at the bug. Another detector resembles a small transistor radio, but the high-pitched whine from its speaker dies down as its whip antenna is swept toward a hidden bug. For those who do not want to bother locating bugs, a scrambling device concealed in a fountain pen can generate static in any radio-frequency bug within 100 ft., making it impossible for an electronic eavesdropper to listen to or record any transmission...
...whip the country into shape, Gestido will have the power to designate certain legislation as "emergency" and therefore automatic law unless Congress acts within a given period. If Congress rejects the new legislation, Gestido can simply dissolve it and rule by decree until new congressional elections are held. As a rein on him, major presidential decisions must be ratified by his eleven-man Council of Ministers. Whatever those decisions may be, they will entail plenty of belt tightening. "I will simply say that we are poor," said Gestido, "and that the poor should live as such. If in some future...
...bumbling Charlie Halleck of Indiana and elevated then 51-year-old Ford. But the victory was diluted only a few days later when the Republican congressmen ignored Ford's support of Peter F. B. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, and voted to retain Leslie C. Arends of Illinois as minority whip. Ford, facing a party bitterly divided on issues of age and ideology, appealed for peace in the language he knew best. Every one of the 140 Republicans in the House "will be a first string player,' he promised. "Nobody is going to sit on the bench. All will...
Poppy's plot is poppycock. Two U.N narcotics agents (Howard and Marshall) assigned to trace a shipment of radio activated opium from the poppy field of Persia to the junk shops of Harlem whip out their trusty Geiger counter and go lickety-click from Teheran to Geneva to Naples to Nice. En route they run a grim gauntlet of all-too-familiar thriller scenes (bang-bang on the Blue Train, hugger-mugger on the bad guy's yacht, hack-the-stripper in a nudie nightspot) and unpleasantly overripe chestnuts ("How'll we get there-take the midnight...
...there is sufficient cloud turbulence, regions begin exchanging streams of charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...