Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have little to do with race, liberality or mushiness. Ritt, Ravetch and Frank revel in the grotesque. The school superintendent and principal (glosses of groups of figures from Conroy's book) are educational Bull Connors. More interesting characters, like the island's hermit Mad Billie, and a fast-talking island slicker named Quickfellow, have neither history nor room for growth. The filmmakers also fail to develop some intriguing themes: Conroy must have influenced his children's lives beyond the classroom, but when their usually stand-offish parents strike to protest Conroy's dismissal, there is no explanation...
When Margai finally died in 1964, his brother, Sir Michael, took over the government by military force to avoid an election with Karefa-Smart. This placed Karefa-Smart in a delicate position. "When this brother pulled this fast one on us, I found I could not stay under those conditions," he says. "So I left the country. I remained a member of Parliment, but took a post at Columbia University because it would be safer...
Until recently, the greatest deterrent to amateur bombmaking was the scarcity of the key ingredient. Both weapons and nuclear reactors need fissionable material to sustain a chain reaction -the familiar energy-producing process in which tiny, fast-moving neutrons released by the breakup (fission) of one unstable atom smash into the nuclei of neighboring atoms, causing them to split. The common reactor fuel-which was also used in the bomb that leveled Hiroshima-is a fissionable isotope of uranium called U-235. But U-235 accounts for only about one out of every 140 atoms of uranium in nature...
...actual manufacture of the bomb, the basic information can be gleaned from any number of public documents, some of them published by the AEC. Essentially, all that is needed to achieve a blast is to bring together a sufficient amount of properly shaped fissionable material fast enough to initiate a massive chain reaction. To do that, the Hiroshima bomb used the so-called gunbarrel technique: both ends of a heavy metal pipe were stuffed with U-235 and the charge at one end was used as a projectile. To detonate the bomb, the U-235 projectile was hurled by conventional...
...relay squad shouldn't be overlooked either. The event beleaguered Butler--he had already taken a fourth after two heats of the intermediate hurdles--and tired freshman Steve Brown teamed up with quartermen Joel Peters and captain Nick Leone to hit 3:15 and take fourth in a surprisingly fast mile relay field...