Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's County Hall, debate was heated, committee meetings solemn with high hope and great responsibility. Hard working delegates, unable to get taxis after late night sessions, stoically bedded down in an A.R.P. shelter. In spite of all this earnest effort, UNRRA's governing council finished its semiannual meeting almost exactly where it had started...
...minutes the Generalissimo was finished. Then, for a moment, the erect shoulders slumped, the facial muscles sagged, the eyes tired. It was a second of relaxation that epitomized eight years of elemental effort...
...uranium nucleus splits into barium and krypton atoms, which are highly excited, unstable and artificially radioactive. They throw off gamma and beta radiation, and finally, in an effort to lose mass, they spout neutrons. If these neutrons are slowed by such substances as graphite, paraffin, heavy water or ordinary water, they will touch off other uranium nuclei. In a tiny fraction of a second the reaction will run through a good-sized sample of uranium, containing trillions of atoms, and the result will be a cataclysmic blast...
...stairs were in the Hohenzollerns' last architectural effort-the Cecilienhof, a Tudor manor constructed in 1913-17 for the Crown Prince. In a graceful sweep, the stairs descended from Churchill's quarters into the 50-foot-high meeting room. These stairs were meant for a grand entrance, complete with aigrettes and sequins. Obviously (to finicky protocol experts), Churchill could not be allowed to come down the stairs while Truman and Stalin gawked at him from below...
Conant, were enlisted in it. Hidden under the official designation "Manhattan Project," the vast forbidden areas in Tennessee, Washington and New Mexico got top priorities not only on matériel but on scientific brains and effort...