Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the coroner's jury delayed its verdict, pending the convening of a special Glynn County grand jury to look into the whole tragic affair...
...Unknown Agents." The FBI questioned the two closely, decided that they had had no foreign or subversive connections. The material was returned to AEC, the affair was reported to the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on June 17. The boys were kept under surveillance while the Justice Department and AEC debated whether there was any way to hold a trial without revealing atomic secrets. Publicly, no one said a word...
...instead of an immediate announcement, the young couple were condemned to even more secrecy. Gossip columnists searched in vain for signs of them in Mayfair and the West End. Horrid rumors that the whole affair was off circulated among Britain's matchmakers. To see his girl at all, Philip had to slip secretly through a side door of the Palace or arrange clandestine rendezvous through his cousin, the Duchess of Kent. Then, last week, after sounding out his Government and his Dominion Ministers, King George inserted a notice in the Court Circular. "It is with the greatest pleasure...
...atom-smashing goes, the uranium bomb is a comparatively gentle affair. Fissioning the uranium atom is roughly comparable to cracking a ripe coconut in half with a well-placed tap: the atom splits neatly into two pieces (lighter atoms) and two or three almost infinitesimal particles (neutrons) that fly off like sparks. Atom smashers believe that they will eventually do much better than that...
...case, Ann Brodell, who seemed to have something to do with the affair, said that refreshments would be served. The exact nature of said refreshments, according to Miss Brodell, would be left up to the next meeting of the Committee...