Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translation, by rights the central subject of a new review, is undoubtedly excellent. The element of melodrama which Cocteau injected into a bizarre and sensitive tale (with an aplomb which indicated his future talents as a moviemaker) is rightly handled...
...Urged the Senate, despite mounting opposition by Old Guard Republicans, to ratify the 80-nation treaty to create an International Atomic Energy Agency, key element in Ike's 1953 atoms-for-peace proposal before the United Nations. Among the objections: approval would involve the U.S. in a giant "giveaway" of atomic secrets; Red China might be expected to join and benefit, etc. Secretary of State Dulles, in appearances before two Senate committees, flatly denied the charges and warned the Senators that rejection of the program-"a native American product" that has "caught the imagination of the world"-would...
...with the USSR, would give the U.S. Strategic Air Command time to strike one deadly, retaliative blow which would presumably bring the Kremlin to its knees. Vital to this concept was America's monopoly of nuclear weapons. When this monopoly was broken, nuclear warfare became the vital element in military thinking, and America revamped its strategy along the lines of "massive retaliation." The advent of nuclear weapons called for a reduction of ground forces, and in 1955 NATO's goal of sixty-five divisions was reduced to thirty-five...
Oppenheimer outlined three major duties of the power, or policy-making, element of society. The first was to insure that in this complex world people do not get the impression, through propaganda, that everything is simple and straightforward...
Berkeley's Hilac will be used chiefly for transmuting elements, especially for attempting to create new elements heavier than mendelevium (element 101). Another use: simulating the damage that may be done by heavy cosmic-ray particles to the living cells of space travelers above the sheltering atmosphere...