Word: focused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target of this invading army is just beyond Ellenton: a 200,000-acre site spotted with hundreds of hustling trucks, steam shovels and cement mixers. There the steel skeleton of a headquarters building is already rising-the focus for sightseers who come from miles around to see what the Du Ponts are doing. What E. I. du Pont de Nemours is doing is worth considerable attention. It is building the Government's $600 million plant to make the components for the hydrogen bomb. "You can't tell no lies about this thing," said an awestruck sharecropper. "This thing...
...Church was too strongly interwoven with French society to be painlessly extracted. So the Revolution sought to destroy faith, and the Church sought to destroy the Revolution. In the first half of the Third Republic's life (1871-1914), the Church-State issue was the main focus of internal French politics. The issue survives today in a fact of the utmost importance to the struggle with Communism. Although France has never ceased to be a Roman Catholic country in spirit, most of the French industrial proletariat and part of the peasantry have been cut off from Christianity for generations...
They are attracted because the Academy is the focus of much research and writing on the Middle Ages. It helps authors publish their manuscripts if it thinks the work is scholarly and shows original research on some aspect of the mediaeval period. It also prints a quarterly called "Speculum," which combines articles on all phases of mediaevalism...
Explosive Lenses. According to Greenglass, the plutonium in the bomb was surrounded by 36 "lenses" of some such high explosive as TNT. Such lenses are roughly analogous to the shaped charges in bazooka projectiles; when they explode, they focus much of their force in one direction. If they are arranged in a spherical shell around the plutonium, their explosion will force it toward a common center...
...Greenglass obliged and even added a sketch of a "lens mold" he was working on for use in the atom bomb itself. He drew a copy for the jury, and a Los Alamos scientist explained that these four-leaf-clover-shaped lenses were made of high explosives designed to focus detonation waves as an optical lens focuses light waves. This made an "implosion" rather than an explosion. The sketch, he said, was sufficient to show an expert "what was going on" at Los Alamos...