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Enclosed in a white-and-green building the shielded pile looked like a mighty concrete block. A red light warned that it was working. Behind the massive walls, a blizzard of darting neutrons was smashing atomic nuclei, creating hundreds of radioactive isotopes so "hot" that invisible specks of them could kill. All around were vigilant Geiger counters ready to raise the alarm if too much radiation leaked. But the only sound was the hum of the ventilating system carrying deadly gases up the stack...
Between 6,000 and 11,000 feet, a thunderhead is a maelstrom of vertical drafts which can toss a plane up or down at the rate of 4,500 feet a minute. Above 14,000 feet, the rain turns to ice and the storm becomes a white blizzard...
...books had such a vogue in the '80s that Paris invented a word for it, Greenawisme. Chintz curtains were printed with Greenaway's interpretations of the seasons (a blizzard for January, flowers for June). Greenaway's grave little girls, in long frocks and wide sashes, and her good little boys, in pork pie hats, were painted on dinner sets, turned into salt & pepper shakers; oil lamps were embossed with Greenaway designs; valentines like those from Greenaway's Quiver of Love were de rigueur for little lovers. Samples of these were on display in the Chicago Public...
...York's great blizzard of March 12, 1888, only one customer was able to get to Brooks Brothers through the storm. Yet a clerk was on hand to greet him. He showed no surprise when the customer asked for a pair of white flannels. A customer once telephoned on the off chance that the store could sell him a nightcap. All the clerk asked was: "With or without tassel...
...days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...