Word: different
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they split up their share of the Government bankroll, scientists may differ about the value of space flight, but rare is the objection to the big bills that will be run up by the construction of new particle accelerators. These monster machines promise to pay for their keep by telling how energy clumps together to form the material particles that make up the universe, by contributing more than existing accelerators can to man's knowledge of nuclear energy...
...hero (Martin La Salle) is a penniless student with Nietzschean notions about crime: "Some men are stronger and more talented than others and have the right to break the law. Their crimes revitalize society." Such thoughts impelled Raskolnikov to murder; they inspire Michel to pick pockets. The crimes differ in seriousness, but not in spiritual effect. In both cases, the crime compels the hero to experience successively sin, guilt, despair, contrition, atonement, love...
...Nuclear attack far exceeds the worst epidemics in the mortalities, the suddeness and the unimaginable destruction it would cause," said Langer. Nuclear war would also differ from a plague in that society would consider it "man willed and man-made," he added...
Even the vocabulary of physics changed. Vague terms such as "strangeness" cropped up to describe mathematically the way these new unstable particles differ from the old familiar ones. Some of the new particles were called "resonances," a term that describes familiar particles temporarily bound together. "There was a sense of uneasiness," says Czech-born California Physicist Harold Ticho. "We were turning up a mess of disconnected beasts which seemed to have no relation to any theory of nature...
...other respects, the Class of '67 will not differ very much from its predecessors, Humphrey Doermann '52, director of Admissions, explained yesterday...