Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insolent in his blue blazer, tanned by the Carribean--or was it Innsbruck--sun, corrupt in his basic indifference to our ragged emotion and hope. He wore a blue plastic badge as a catchet of his sterility. The opportunists from mass media delayed the game so that they could beam coast to coast a clicheridden conversation with the rival managers...
Eleven gritty little new faces will beam out from under helmets and faceguards when the Crimson takes the field against Lafayette tomorrow. Only on e of them is a sophomore--Ray Hornblower--and he will be running back punts. Most of the others are juniors who saw limited action last year...
...carried out by "night hunters," teams of helicopters equipped with a new sniper's scope, called a Starlight, that can see in the dark and cannot be deceived by the enemy. Unlike the older infrared scope, which sought the enemy by heat detection but gave off a detectable beam of light, the new scope amplifies light from the stars or the moon, making its targets appear as pale white images on the scope's green, radarlike screen...
During the next five weeks, their dark almond eyes will beam on a group of lecturers from business schools in the Boston area, and their stiletto-like fingernails will flick through books on such subjects as real estate management, production cost analysis and product marketing. Then they will visit major U.S. industrial firms, dropping in on General Mills or IBM or Mobil Oil to get a firsthand look at how their male counterparts in the U.S. turn a profit...
...lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef up merchandising, tighten up controls on distribution, expand outside New England. All that makes outgoing President Pierce beam. "The market is there," says he, "if we get off our duffs. But we couldn't continue to carry the costs of operating alone...