Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, the situation has grown increasingly serious. Soviet radio stations beam programs into Sinkiang exhorting the minority groups to rise up in a war of liberation against the Maoists. The Chinese, badly outgunned along the entire Sino-Soviet border, are at a special disadvantage in Sinkiang. Against some 150,000 to 200,000 troops across the Soviet border the Chinese have only 85,000 to 100,000. The Soviet troops, moreover, are backed up by medium-range missiles...
...barnlike house had been severed. The word "pig" was scrawled on the front door in blood. Inside, police discovered the body of Polanski's pregnant wife, Actress Sharon Tate, 26. She was clad in a bikini nightgown. A nylon cord, looped around her neck and passed over a beam, linked her body to that of Jay Sebring, 35, who had been her beau before her marriage. A hood covered Sebring's head, but the two appeared to have been stabbed or shot, not hanged. "It seemed kind of ritualistic," said one of the officers investigating the case...
...lunar surface brought back that dangerous moment with tense immediacy. The movies were so clear and sharp that they allowed scientists to pinpoint the landing area precisely. And with the exact coordinates to guide them, astronomers at California's Lick Observatory were finally able to bounce a laser beam off the reflecting mirror left behind by the astronauts...
...recorded and transmitted to earth evidence of the tremors caused when Aldrin hammered tubes into the lunar surface to collect core samples. It also registered the thud when the astronauts dropped their backpacks from Eagle's hatch. But the first test of the laser reflector failed when a beam shot from California's Lick Observatory missed the reflector by about 50 miles...
...their part in the moon special, the astronauts were scheduled to beam their live production back to earth via a signal sent through space to a receiving station in Parkes, Australia, from which point it was to be relayed on around the world. And the camera that did all this work? Not really very impressive looking: a 7.25-lb. miniaturized instrument that resembles an ordinary home-movie camera but operates on the same principle as its TV-studio big brother. It contains 250 components designed to operate in a vacuum and under extreme temperature conditions. Some of the parts...