Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heart of the system is an artificially grown crystal of cadmium sulphide, which acts as a sort of amplifier tube when excited by X radiation. It multiplies by 1,000,000 the energy it gets from X rays so the X-ray generator can be weak, cheap, safe...
...practice, a slender pencil of X rays is shot through the material to be examined. The rays that pass through are detected by the crystal and turned into electric current. If the current is stronger than standard, indicating a void or flaw in the material, the apparatus rings a bell or flashes a light...
...glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin, a $70,000 hospital from the British-owned Anglo-Iranian...
Stiff Eyeballs. Johnny's arms and legs were frozen solid. Her abdomen was stiff, her jaw locked tight. "Even her eyeballs," says Dr. Laufman, "were crystal hard. They were like two glass beads." Her temperature could not be taken at once, because regular clinical thermometers do not go low enough. After an hour and a half, a laboratory thermometer was found and used rectally. Her temperature then was 64.4° F.-far below the point generally considered fatal...
Douglas MacArthur, perhaps chastened by recent experiences, balanced his crystal ball neatly between optimism and pessimism. On his eighth visit to the battle zone, MacArthur discounted Chinese Nationalist reports that the Chinese Communists, disgusted by the nonarrival of Soviet air support, were pulling out of Korea. Said MacArthur: "The entire military might of Communist China is available against this relatively small command." But he deplored "loose talk" to the effect that the U.N. forces might be pushed out of Korea. "No one," he said, "is going to drive us into...