Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some cases, says Stanley-Jones, the explosion is powerful enough to disrupt the star, blowing a vast halo of luminous material away from its surface. Such stars would be nonrepeating novae. A milder explosion would merely cause a slight expansion and more brightness. After it is over, perhaps the remaining fissionable material falls back toward the star's center and causes, in due course, another moderate explosion. Such stars, exploding gently at regular intervals, Stanley-Jones says, would behave like the "pulsating variables...
...start of the marriage ceremony last Sunday, Li'l Abner was confident that something would happen to stop it. After all, Joe Btfsplk, the world's worst jinx, was standing by and when he was around, "somethin' awful," like an earthquake, always happened to disrupt things. But as Li'l Abner said "Ah Do" and heard the awful words, ". . . man an' wife," he suddenly realized that nothing had happened...
...roads leading into Greece from its Communist neighbors, the guerrillas control five-two from Bulgaria, two from Yugoslavia, and one from Albania. One high-ranking U.S. officer said last week: "So long as it's Communist policy to disrupt Greece by permitting guerrillas to cross and recross the borders there will be war in Greece...
...Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
This was rather less than Pyongyang had hoped for from Kimm and Kim. The Reds were doing everything they could think of to disrupt this week's elections, which would lead to a free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge...