Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words that the computer recognizes as commands to make it do things. The word PLAY, for instance, tells a properly equipped computer to play a musical note. Another command, SENTENCE, instructs it to put two words together into a sentence. Still more commands direct the movement of a tiny triangular character called the turtle, which crawls across the screen leaving a trace of where it has been. Typing in, say, RIGHT 90, turns the turtle 90° to the right. FORWARD 50 sends it sliding forward about 50 mm. Sitting down at a Logo computer, eight-year-olds can start...
...bombing, most of the guerrillas simply slipped away into another valley. I was less than half a mile from the Soviet position at Ab Darrah, surrounded by guerrillas who were in jubilant spirits. From a mountain overlooking the valley, we could clearly see the Soviet camp. It had a triangular perimeter, with six self-propelled howitzers lined up neatly in a row, and next to them eight BM-21 mobile rocket launchers, well known to military experts as Stalin organs...
With a deceptively simple set of commands, LOGO enables youngsters who know nothing of geometry or algebra, and barely know how to read, to manipulate a triangular figure, dubbed the Turtle, on a computer screen and trace all manner of shapes with it. At the Lamplighter School in Dallas, teachers using LOGO get youngsters of three or four to write simple computer instructions. In one game, they maneuver "cars" and "garages" on the computer screen in such a way that the cars are parked inside the garages. While playing with LOGO, the youngsters learn simple words, the difference between left...
...place to look for the Soviets, TIME has learned, is 300 miles north in a remote corner of Baluchistan, near Zahedan, where the Iranian, Pakistani and Afghan frontiers meet to form a triangular no man's land. For centuries, the mountainous border area had been controlled by fierce Baluchi tribesmen, who freely traverse the borders of the three countries. The area is also used by opium smugglers and roamed by packs of wild, emaciated desert dogs...
...NOTEBOOK: Having proven in their first outing that they have both depth and talent, the Crimson harriers have to hope they can remain bound together in the front of the pack when they travel to Van Cortlandt Park in New York for the annual triangular meet with Penn and Columbia...