Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...element of pursuit is strong in all of Greene's work. Here, James' mother refuses to tell all in the belief that it is best to let sleeping dogs lie. So James pursues his long-lost uncle and the old widow of a discharged gardener, who have relevant information. But it is really his own past that James is pursuing...
...thinking, as he doodled, argued and explained in the musty committee chambers of Lancaster House, was this line of reasoning: 1) no nation that keenly feels itself in danger of attack is likely to reduce its arms; 2) with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space, the element of surprise has far greater weight than ever before in military calculation, and a big part of the fear of attack is the fear of surprise; therefore, 3) the best hope for peace and for reducing the burden of armaments lies in eliminating or diminishing the danger of surprise attack...
...their burgeoning metropolis, Tokyoites have the services of 22,334 policemen (now equipped with nightsticks and U.S.-made .38-cal. revolvers instead of swords). One of the police force's biggest headaches: a spreading rash of crimes of violence by the spiv and Teddy-boy element of the city's 350,000 students, whose favorite weapons are knives and bicycle chains...
...proof when these particles turned out to have almost exactly the energy that physical theory had predicted. Next, the plastic foil was burned away, the invisible residue dissolved in hydrochloric acid, and the acid then poured through a column filled with material that has varying attraction for different chemical elements. When alpha particles were found coming from the place in the column predicted for element 102, the scientists could be sure that they had succeeded...
They did not create much of it-only about 50 atoms or one billion-trillionth of an ounce. "Hardly a commercial quantity," said Chemist Fields. Asked why he and his friends went to such trouble, he said with a happy smile: "Well, discovery of a new element is considered a big thing in some circles...