Word: atomization
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...successor, James Bryant Conant, was a chemist of somewhat more talent than Eliot, and he was to play an important part in the development of the atom bomb. He led Harvard through World War II, when the Yard swarmed with more soldiery than it had seen since the Revolutionary War. When it subsequently swarmed with veterans, Conant introduced the influential "general education" program that required all students to take survey courses in the humanities, sciences and social sciences...
...more space shuttle will not meet the challenge. For the moment, America has lost its nerve and its vision from the top down. What we do in space now is just as important as the Panama Canal, the atom bomb, the cure for polio, the trip to the moon. The most frightening deficit is in boldness...
...1950s and the American government has started shipping its top scientists to the middle of the Nevada desert to test the Atom bomb. But Rose, the narrator who lives in Las Vegas, which lies close to the testing site, is touched only peripherally by the newcomers. She spends most of her time worrying about her turbulent relationship with her step-father and whether she will win the county spelling...
Elsewhere, West German militants smashed windows and hurled rocks at police last week as 10,000 antinuclear demonstrators marched in Hamburg. But perhaps the most stunning response to the Chernobyl accident came from France, which relies on the atom for 65% of its electric power. After first assuring its citizens that the nuclear cloud had passed them by, the French government admitted last week that radiation readings in some regions had been 400 times as high as normal. While that was alarming enough, red-faced French officials compounded the problem by insisting that their failure to notify the public...
WEST GERMANY. A headline in the newspaper Bild Zeitung proclaimed ATOM ANGST, while authorities issued conflicting orders. In the state of North Rhine- Westphalia, citizens were urged to keep their children out of sandboxes, to avoid touching the ground with anything but their feet and to protect themselves from rain. Yet in Bavaria officials saw no harm in letting children play in sand as long as they kept it out of their mouths. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann sought to ease fears like those that caused almost 1,000 anxious TV viewers to call a panel of experts with such questions...