Word: arc
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...week's end 60 lifeless bodies had been pulled from the wreckage of small towns along a 300-mile arc through the Carolinas. Some two dozen tornadoes had touched down during a six-hour period Wednesday, leveling houses, stores and barns and tossing tractor-trailers through the air like children's toys. The death toll from tornadoes was the highest in the U.S. since April 1974, when 300 people were killed in the South and Midwest...
...eventually cleared for free elections in Namibia, black rule is certain to be the choice of its 1.2 million people, 85.7% of whom are black. Are South Africa's ruling whites willing to allow that development, which would create an unbroken arc of black-ruled states along their border? The answer at the moment appears to be a qualified...
DIED. Joseph H. Simons, 86, chemist who discovered one of the first practical ways to synthesize fluorocarbons; of Parkinson's disease; in Gainesville, Fla. In the late 1930s, as a professor at Penn State, Simons found that passing fluorine through an arc of carbon gas produced a few drops of clear liquid fluorocarbon, but his discovery had no obvious use. A few years later, when scientists could not find enough fissionable uranium to build the Abomb, Simons rescued the jar of fluorocarbon from a filing cabinet. The resulting chemical reactions yielded highly fissionable uranium 235. By the mid-1950s...
...derided Hamlisch's A Chorus Line as "reeking of double Broadway standards," now pushes the pre-opening troubles aside and defends Jean Seberg as "an exciting piece of work about the danger of starmaking in Western society." He has literally cast Seberg as a modern Joan of Arc. He has staged Seberg's involvement with the Black Panthers as a khaki chorus line brandishing rifles to a rhythm-and-blues beat. The show climaxes with Saint Jean burning at the stake for her ideals, torch courtesy of the FBI. Jean Seberg opened this month with a couple...
...nine years since her death, it has pleased many people to think of Karen Silkwood as a sort of Joan of Arc of the nuclear age, an ignorant peasant lass who was martyred after she heeded the voice of a developing conscience and dared to point out the lack of adequate safety measures and quality controls in a plutonium-recycling plant where she was employed. This facility was owned by a corporate giant (Kerr-McGee) working under a Government contract, and Silkwood died in an auto accident on her way to show a New York Times reporter supposed documentary evidence...