Word: attempted
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...attempt to bring some order to the unruly world of hadrons, Murray Gell-Mann, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, proposed the quark theory. All hadrons, said Gell-Mann in 1963, can be composed of two or three quarks or their anti-particles. Quarks come in three "flavors"--up, down and sideways. Down quarks ('d') have an electric charge of -1/3, up quarks ('u') have charge + 2/3. And then there are sideways quarks ('s'). Sideways quarks are used to make "strange" particles, the ones with the long lifetimes, and are said to have "strangeness" 1. All other...
...might learn from the animal world: the wolf is placated by the tiger, not by the hummingbird. What we need now is not arms reduction but a massive arms buildup on our side of such magnitude that the Russians will come to realize they will not succeed in their attempt to rule the world...
...outmaneuvered Representative Jack Brooks, who wanted to alter the President's Government reorganization plans. The President invited 14 Democrats on Brooks' committee to the White House and persuaded them to endorse his approach. Knowing when he was beaten, Brooks said last week that he would make no attempt to stop the President's proposal...
Nevertheless, Pink Collar Workers is a sound addition to the literature of women that has emerged in the past few years. Although she is not completely successful, Howe's attempt to chronicle the perspective of that silent majority of women in the labor force is a useful one; her effort to give body to the statistics gives them a force that is lacking in the economist's graphs...
...Watch the fencers epee, foil and sabre their way against the Elis in an attempt to gain the Ivy tri-title with Penn and Cornell. This is big stuff. Practically a diploma requirement. Be there. On guard...