Word: catalystic
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...well as internationalizing the canal, the United Nations should take this opportunity to establish an effective patrol of Israeli-Arab borders. Otherwise, the border incidents which have acted as a catalyst to the recent explosion would only begin again...
...stop, Marilyn continues her feeble efforts to escape. When fatherly Arthur O'Connell cannot put a snaffle on his coltish pal, the muscular bus driver (Robert Bray) finally takes Murray outside and gives him the larruping he has been asking for. The fight is the film's catalyst. From it, Murray learns that a man has not always "gotta right to the things he loves," while Marilyn discovers, to her surprise, that his ear-splitting exuberance is just a protective screen around a small...
Finally came the catalyst to action. In 1946, the campus of defunct Middlesex Medical College was offered to a hastily-organized group of Boston businessmen. Middlesex was founded by Dr. John Hall Smith, an old New Englander who reacted against discrimination by other medical schools. Smith succeeded in maintaining a non-discriminatory admissions policy, but failed to maintain a satisfactory level of instruction...
Self-Fueled Missiles. A more exciting possibility is that the newly discovered reaction could be used to propel missiles or even aircraft. Nitric oxide may not be the only catalyst that works. The scientists speculate that some solid catalyst might be made into a tube or a honeycomb. When carried swiftly by a rocket through the upper air, it would swallow great volumes of atomic oxygen and make it combine into O2 molecules...
...realize how big it was. I'm not discouraged." He will continue to cover the segregation story "on its merits" in the news columns, hopes that the editorial "position we've been forced to take as a temporary setback to moderation in our area may be the catalyst to bring the moderates into action to override the extremists...