Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test's purpose was to find what happens when a nuclear warhead explodes in a virtual vacuum above the bulk of the atmosphere. The behavior of a nuclear explosion near sea level is known precisely. The nuclear fireball expands very fast at first, but both its temperature and pressure fall as it gets bigger. When its pressure equals that of the air, the ball stops expanding (for a megaton explosion, at a diameter of about one mile). The air also absorbs gamma and ultraviolet rays, confines radioactive particles to a comparatively small cloud...
...despite the landing of foreign troops, despite perhaps as many as 2,000 killed since May, despite an economic depression brought on by the strife, Lebanese politicians were still loath to put aside their petty ambitions and prejudices for the settlement that the vast bulk of their countrymen wanted. At week's end Premier Saeb Salam, self-styled "leader of Beirut rebels," who keeps a sign on his sandbagged command post, "Appointments 9 to 1 and 4 to 7," announced that the elections ought not to be held as long as Chamoun remained President, and "aggressor" troops remained...
...Atlantic). The leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet takes some standards (Little Girl Blue, It Never Entered My Mind) and some of his own compositions (Harlequin, Colombine) and strips them to the clean, cool bone. The spare treatments have a fragile charm all their own, but when heard in bulk they speak in an emotional monotone ultimately as wearying as a series of landscapes executed in whites and greys...
...year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from the open box on the counter. I tried to give the impression that, if the sample were to my taste, I would order Cake Box Mixture in bulk." Epicure Lucius Beebe ('27) shunned cigarettes, which caused users to emerge from Leavitt & Peirce "shamelessly trailing clouds of Sweet Caporal and leering at passing virgins in an abandoned manner." He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame...
While producers in some other industries were shaving prices (see below), oilmen last week felt confident enough to raise bulk gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast by ½? per gal. More increases are coming. Said a Sinclair Oil spokesman: "As the year goes on, higher refined prices will be inevitable because prices now are totally unrealistic in relation to costs...