Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally," he recalls, "that I thought I was sick physically. Finally I called Dad and told him to come get me. I just sat and stared out the window all the way home...
When prison officials called in a force of 200 machine gun-toting cops to reinforce the regular guards, the prisoners in their high, fourth-tier redoubt began to shoot their hostages, one by one, to "dramatize" their demand. Two of 'the bodies were hurled from a window to the cops and guards in the courtyard below...
...followed Jansky's lead. Working alone, Reber built a dish antenna 31 ft. in diameter in his own backyard. With it he made the extraordinary discovery that the sky is full of radio stars that have nothing to do with ordinary stars. Reber had opened wide the radio window on the sky. His crude radio telescope, the world's first. now stands at the entrance of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank...
Bulges & Squiggles. Soon after World War II. radio astronomy really got into high gear. Scientists in many lands, especially Britain and Australia, built improved radio telescopes to take advantage of the second window...
Living Universe. A list of the radio sights visible through these varied telescopes would fill an enormous book, but radio astronomy is developing so fast that no such book is likely to be written for years. Still, the radio window has already brought the universe to life in numberless unexpected ways. Even the moon, just about the deadest object in the solar system, sends out radio waves that tell something about its temperature and about the material on its surface...