Word: chunking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night, while most of Longarone's inhabitants slept or watched a soccer game on television, a huge chunk of a nearby mountain called Toe broke loose and fell 650 ft. into the 873-ft.-high Vaiont Dam, 2½ miles from the town. The splash sent a 300-ft.-high tidal wave across the reservoir. Spilling over the lip, the avalanche of water cascaded into a gorge leading to the nearby Piave River. It churned up tons of rock and mud, and hit Longarone. Then the flood bounced off a mountainside, turned around, hit Longarone again, and continued down...
...delinquent taxes, Morrison hauled his ensign down (TIME, Feb. 15). To run it up again, Cattleman Smith acquired the handful of assets left by the Journal-principally the empty plant, some office furniture and Bob Morrison, who still has accounts to settle with assorted creditors. Smith has pledged a chunk of his personal fortune to tide his nursling through the months ahead...
Under the terms of the accord, the U.S. will give Mexico 630 acres of U.S. territory, and will receive in turn a desolate 193-acre chunk of Cordova Island, a Mexico-owned enclave on the El Paso side of the river. As soon as the U.S. and Mexican Senates ratify the agreement-probably late this year-the U.S. will make plans to reimburse Chamizal property owners and relocate the area's 3,750 residents. Railroads that run through El Chamizal will be rerouted farther north. The U.S. and Mexico will then split the expenses of building six new bridges...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
When they passed the proper hydrocarbons, sulphur dioxide and oxygen near a chunk of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60, the gamma rays from the cobalt knocked a hydrogen atom off the hydrocarbon molecules, making them highly reactive. After enough of these free radicals had been formed, the cobalt 60 could be removed, and the reaction proceeded without further stimulation. The result was SAS (sodium alkane sulfonate), a long-chain detergent that washes clothes and dishes every bit as well as the troublesome...