Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...STAND FAST! KEEP CALM! VICTORY is IN SIGHT! implored the words scribbled on a blackboard at a Belfast street corner last week. The message was an appeal to Protestants in Ulster's latest, and perhaps most serious crisis. A province-wide general strike brought business to a complete standstill, forced most of the province's 180,000 industrial workers off the job and shut down virtually all shops. Ulster was on the brink of economic paralysis...
...Eustache has written a very funny movie, but what starts out as the foolishness of his characters turns out to be something worth watching for more than laughs. If it seems like slow going some of the time, that's partly because Eustache shot the film slightly fast, so that the action appears in barely noticeable slow motion. But an even more important kind of slowness in the film is the deliberateness with which it digests its characters...
College officials frankly find the dissident grads a headache ("A pain in the ass is probably closer," says one Stanford administrator). They resent the old grads' tendency to play fast and recklessly with the truth and to make a cause célèbre out of every campus incident. There is also a fear that the grads might sabotage alumni contributions...
...Fast Neutrons. Unlike the more familiar process of fission (in which energy is released by the breakup of atomic nuclei), fusion involves the combining (or fusing) of two nuclei of hydrogen. The reaction releases energy-primarily in the form of high-velocity neutrons-that scientists hope some day can be harnessed to generate electricity...
...their experiments have been repeated-and improved upon-in a number of countries, including the U.S., France, Britain and West Germany. But scientists are not yet certain that the burst of neutrons that characterizes such reactions is produced by true thermonuclear fusion or by the collision of relatively few fast-moving atomic nuclei in the compressed deuterium or tritium...