Word: atomically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girl who knows she isn't getting any younger. As a result, the affair had a certain cozy credibility. On Broadway, these roles are played by Jason Robards and Diana Sands. Looking like a crestfallen road-show narrator for Our Town, Robards doesn't indicate that an atom of sex is dancing in his head. Sleek, sassy Diana Sands seems about as vulnerable as a Navy destroyer with guns blazing. They act together as if they had never met, let alone shared...
Similar joint ventures have been set up in dozens of other cities. E.G. & G., the company that triggers atom-bomb blasts for the Atomic Energy Commission, has a Negro-managed subsidiary that is building a metal-fabricating plant in Boston's Roxbury Negro district. In San Francisco, Safeway Stores has rescued a ghetto cooperative supermarket from the brink of bankruptcy, even though the store competes with a Safeway outlet ten blocks away...
...strike in a situation like this is like an atom bomb," Sullivan said. "As soon as you drop it the threat is gone. The important thing is to exploit the threat...
Burned-out Beam. While paying tribute to Lawrence's inventive genius and leadership, Davis details his failings, which were considerable. Although Stanley Livingston, graduate student at Berkeley, devised two of the beam-focusing techniques that enabled Lawrence to build the first of the big atom smashers, Lawrence failed to mention Livingston in his patent application and generally avoided crediting him for his work. When Livingston complained, Lawrence coldly suggested that if he felt dissatisfied he was free to drop out of the cyclotron project...
...students and the rise of Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer became too suddenly a social activist, naively lending his support to Communist as well as liberal causes. By the time the U.S. entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent" job in producing a workable bomb...