Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luminous watch dials, he wrote, do contain radioactive material, but the quantity "is negligibly small and constitutes no hazard to the individual . . . unless one were to eat the dial." Luminous switch markers are harmless, too, but Taylor urged moderation. "One should not fill his home with such devices unless there is real need for them...
...scene. One report managed to tell without bragging how the smog was licked in Pittsburgh. How America Shops showed a husband popping bottles into his wife's shopping basket on their way around a supermarket, another woman wandering interminably, "just looking," until she can no longer contain herself and launches into a frenzy of impulse buying. A Report on a fire in the Lutheran church in Sayville, Long Island, and the efforts of the local citizens to rebuild it, moved many British viewers to send contributions of merchandise and money...
...behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type, which gets much of its energy from the fission of normally inactive uranium...
...Feast of St. John the Baptist was celebrated in high style last week. There were heaps of lechón asado (roast pig) and pasteles (meat cakes wrapped in plantain leaves). Blindfolded children laughingly broke piñatas, whacking away with sticks at the hanging earthenware pots that might contain candy or water; music vibrated whole city blocks, and there were dozens of mambo, cha-cha and rumba contests. For San Juan is the patron saint of the island of Puerto Rico, and the Roman Catholic Church in the two cities was giving the Puerto Ricans their...
...minimum of hand-to-hand fighting, Disney partially supplied the lack with a skull-bashing brawl during a jailbreak after the spies were captured. Disney also softened the story's grim ending by replacing the mass execution with speeches about brotherhood by Parker and Hunter-speeches that contain impeccable sentiments but seem strangely out of place on the eve of a hanging...