Word: excelsior
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...cadavers of the military men fell one on the other," reported Mexico City's Excelsior, describing the gunplay at the Eugenia bar. ". . . The blood of both mixed and formed an immense pool under the bodies." Excelsior thought the small-arms engagement "originated from the drunkenness of the officers...
...took an awful long time. I soon learned to think of color more or less objectively so that I could paint a green tree red without batting an eye. Purple or green faces didn't bother me at all, and I even learned to sew buttons and glue excelsior on the canvas without feeling any sense of guilt...
...Mexican peers, Orozco had "no time" to see them, and Fellow Muralist Diego Rivera was "too busy" painting some of his own in the National Palace (just across the street) to take a look. Biddle felt sure that an attack on his murals which appeared in the newspaper Excelsior, under the nom de plume "jurinto," was really written by Rivera. But Biddle, who felt that he had done something constructive, hoped that the Justices would be pleased...
...uranium isotope, U-235, giving a mighty gush of energy. Besides energy, their "fission" produced more flying neutrons. If enough of these in turn split uranium atoms, the reaction would maintain itself, gain momentum. It would flash through all the uranium, like the flame of a match through excelsior...
...happen naturally, chiefly because only one part in 140 of ordinary uranium is U-235. Most of the rest is another isotope, U-238-which, instead of splitting like U-235, absorbs the newborn neutrons with the result that the atomic flame goes out like a match in wet excelsior...