Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cave of Ghar Hotu lies near the North Iranian village of Turujan, just south of Behshahr, about three miles from the Caspian. In the remote past, the sea lapped at its entrance. Primitive men built fires there and stared out across the dark waters. One cool evening, thousands of years ago, disaster struck. The roof fell in, burying three of the cave dwellers in Pleistocene sand and gravel, and prehistoric ages piled sand and stone above their bones...
Acheson: "We usually talk about the rulers of the Soviet Union as though they were always well-informed, cool-headed and calculating. [But Soviet leaders] may be blinded to actual conditions in the outside world by the rigidity of their theory. And, what is even more dangerous . . . they are subject to becoming rattled...
...More Neutrons. This process of "beta-decay" made the nuclei more stable -able to capture more neutrons. Bigger & bigger they grew, until all the elements in the universe had been formed. Then this growing process stopped; there were no more free neutrons, and the gas had become too cool to support nuclear reactions. Drs. Alpher & Herman believe that all the elements were formed in less than an hour after the great event...
...succeeded. Impressed, Geology Professor George W. Bain handed MacVicar his favorite specimen, a chunk of pre-Cambrian limestone from the great Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, world's largest supply of uranium. After slowly heating the stone to 1,800° C. and letting it cool slowly, MacVicar painstakingly brushed away the powdered lime and uncovered the fragile, microscopic remains of a billion-year-old sponge. Dr. Bain described it as "among the oldest [fossils] yet discovered...
...bosses seem to be cool, calculating men. Opportunity, not provocation, is what moves them. Wherever they have been "provoked," they backed down. Wherever they have been appeased, they grabbed for more. The U.N. may negotiate an appeasement in Korea, but it will be merely the prelude to the next aggression...