Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific detail. One purpose of the tests will be to determine the effect of atomic explosions upon "structures and materials of various kinds." The AEC assured the American Institute of Architects that special efforts will be made to gain information useful to architects trying to design atom-resistant buildings...
...Elysée Palace in Paris, President of the Republic Vincent Auriol drummed his fingers on the desk at which Napoleon I signed his abdication after Waterloo. Intent on a journey, Vincent Auriol was trying to remember if everything, every last detail, had been taken care of. This week he (with his wife Michele) sails on the Ile de France, the first French President to visit...
Neutron Source. Another interesting detail was vaguely described by Greenglass. In the center of the bomb, he said, was a beryllium sphere that provided a source of neutrons to make the plutonium explode more suddenly. He may have had in mind a mixture of beryllium and radium, the usual laboratory source of small numbers of neutrons. When bombarded by alpha-particles from radium, beryllium releases neutrons and turns into ordinary carbon. But he may have been right in saying that the central sphere was made of, pure beryllium. Plutonium itself emits alpha-particles, which might knock useful neutrons...
...made living and bright on the stage. The Green Pastures has a storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with its own morality. Now & then, with a homely detail, it contrives an awesome effect; or with an incongruous touch reveals an unexpected meaning. Everything is most unmystically concrete: Heaven is a Southern fish fry, Babylon is a honkytonk...
...professional coaches who have worked over them since January, for the men who have rowed in The Boat Race since 1829, for those who remember the dead heat of '77 and still get excited when telling about it, for the readers for "The Times" who have followed each detail in their training for three months, and for those of us who are hoping for the first Dark Blue victory in five years...