Word: emit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would do as 1) civil servants, 2) holiday companions. Each year, about 25 survivors are picked as third secretaries in the Foreign Service. Many are already adept in that ancient talent of British diplomacy: the ability to open one's mouth and move one's lips to emit words which give the illusion, but only the illusion, of a reply...
...will not move, but just emit...
...sources are made by "cooking" cobalt or tantalum tubes (13½ in. long) in Brookhaven's nuclear reactor at Upton, N.Y. There the original metals turn into cobalt-60 and tantalum-182, both of which emit gamma rays with more than 1,000,000 electron volts of energy...
...matter how well braced he was for the new defense program, John Citizen was going to be hard put not to emit at least one wild and profane cry when he got the word. Best Washington guess at the next national budget: approximately $73 billion, or $20 billion more than this year...