Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military airfield at Dire Dawa, dozens of green-and-brown-camouflaged MiG-17s and 21s thunder off into the sky each day to strike at Somali forces hundreds of miles away. As they roar down the runway, mules pulling carts plod past the barbed-wire boundaries of the tarmac, carrying jugs of water. The combatants themselves are hardly better off. There are indications on both sides that the greenest troops are pushed into the front lines. One captured Somali who said he was 13 years old was shown off by the Ethiopians in Harar. The youth claimed he had been...
Blodgett Pool and the Soldier's Field Track and Tennis Hall lost power last night for about three hours when a dump truck accidentally backed into a light pole and disrupted an underground hightension wire, the attendant of the athletic facility at the time of the black-out said last night...
...does just that; it stores information until it is needed by other parts of the machine. For nearly two decades the most popular memory in modern computers has been the magnetic core variety. It consists of thousands of tiny iron rings, each one encircling an intersection of two wires in a rectangular grid made up of thousands of wires. Depending on the direction of current in the two wires that pass through its hole, each doughnut is magnetized in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. This represents either a 1 or a 0-a "bit" (for binary digit) of information...
Karl Wallenda, on why he still walks the circus high wire at age 73: "I like to do things that other people cannot do. I can still...
...onto the screen in Red River and The Search (both 1948), Clift set the standard for a whole generation of actors. He was intense and hypnotically alive. His lines seemed to come not from the script but from the gut, and he seemed dangerously unpredictable, like a high-tension wire torn from its moorings. For the better part of a decade, Clift was the star producers sought first. But then, in the longest suicide in Hollywood history, he crushed both life and career under an avalanche of booze, pills and inexplicable anguish. He was only 45 when he died...