Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Known Devil. The leadership crisis extended even to Congress, generally considered the hard core of Democratic strength. The President's veto of the natural-gas bill last February was a blow to the prestige of those leading Texans, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. And Rayburn's fumble in bringing the farm-bill veto to a House' vote last week undermined what had seemed to be the party's most promising issue. Even if the Democrats pick up farm votes, there is still the civil-rights issue-on which congressional Democrats...
...cult of psychoanalysis began to develop its schismatic sects and diametrically opposed dogmatists. But Freudian dogma remained its core, and it began to win acceptance among the unhappy, the emotionally distressed and dispossessed...
Among the 9.000 psychiatrists in the U.S., only 619 are hard-core analysts. Several hundred psychologists also practice analysis (and are slightingly referred to by M.D.s as "lay analysts"). Perhaps 15,000 patients are in analysis at any one time; the estimated total of Americans who have tried analysis (though many did not stay the full course) is well over 100,000-more than in the rest of the world...
...reactors of similar type. Last year the laboratory began a series of risky but wholly legitimate experiments to find out how the reactors would behave during sudden power surges, i.e., sudden increases in the speed of the nuclear reaction. The first experiments went well. The temperature of the reacting core (about the size of a football and heavily shielded) rose as scheduled but cooled off obediently when controls went into action...
...automatic controls were shut off, and the reactor was made to surge without them. A technician stood ready at the manually operated controls, waiting for a command from the scientist in charge. Deep under its shield the core grew hotter and hotter, its temperature rising toward the danger point. The scientist, watching the instruments, told the technician to shut the reactor off instantly, but his order was misunderstood; the technician used control devices that were too slow. Before they could take effect the core had partially melted. Instruments warned of radiation danger, the alarm was given, and the building...