Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made the ascent? "It was a personal challenge," he said, "a challenge to my ingenuity." The trade building, Willig said, "was very appealing. Very vertical." Confronted by his talent, temperament and instant popularity, New York City soon surrendered and canceled the $250,000 suit. Instead, said Mayor Abraham Beame, the city would settle for a fine of $1.10-a penny for every floor...
...first steps on that ascent was the realization that the conditions of temperature and density necessary for the sustained fusion of ordinary hydrogen nuclei were far beyond the present capabilities of science. But experiments showed that it was easier to fuse two isotopes, or different forms, of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium. Reason: the nuclei of these isotopes have larger cross sections than those of ordinary hydrogen nuclei. Thus the probability of direct collisions between them is increased and that in turn means that less extreme conditions are required to make them fuse. The easiest fusion to attain, scientists determined...
...book grows from a television series Galbraith filmed for the BBC along the lines of J. Bronowski's Ascent of Man. In the series, Galbraith jaunts around the world to various spots of particular import in his study, strolling along the countryside of Marx's youth and surveying the barren wastes of Death Valley (which he offers as an example of the New York-Philadelphia corridor after World War III). As a substitute--a good one--for the varied film clips that bring his series to life, The Age of Uncertainty is studded with more than a hundred photographs...
...limit of non-destructive running. By that point, a runner has used up all his expendable energy. After that, proteins and muscles start tearing down. That's why Heartbreak Hill is so torturous. If it were during the first ten miles of the race, the insidiously gentle two-mile ascent up to Boston College would raise nary an eyebrow. But instead, it must be dealt with at the runner's true breaking point--when every cell in his body starts screaming surrender...
...meet progressed, the Crimson steel proved true as Dan Sullivan broke a three-way tie for first place in the high-jump by winning on fewer misses, and mountain-climber Geoff Stiles left his Princeton Sherpa guides behind with a 14-ft.,-6-in. ascent in the pole vault...