Word: fractionalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stunned and angry, Rhee sent for his propaganda chief, who hastily announced: "The government feeling is that the fraction must be disregarded and the amendments have therefore been approved." At the next Assembly session, Choi Soon Joo dutifully echoed: "My Saturday announcement was wrong. Today I want to announce that the bill has passed legally." Sixty anti-Rhee assemblymen stormed out of the chamber, crying that the President "has usurped the legislative power...
...know whether the market is." Some of the other indicators showed just what he meant. The Dow-Jones rail average, though at a high for the year (up 2.55 points last week to 132.27), was still almost 60 points below its 1929 peak; the utility average (up a fraction of a point to 60.75) was more than 80 points below its high. Among other standard Wall Street guides, there were similar discrepancies. The New York Times average of 50 representative stocks, at 253.55, was 50 points below the 1929 high, while the Herald Tribune average of 100 stocks...
Grants amounting to $400,000 from several foundations will cease this June 30, he said. So far only a fraction of the funds necessary to maintain the school's present budget are now in sight...
...girls motioned to Carmen that her bodice was too low. Carmen began to raise it, then muttered "What the hell!" and lowered it another fraction of an inch. "The balcony is going to have a better view than we are," said a girl to one of the male gypsies. "We'll be closer to the music, though," he replied...
...changed radically with the growing quantity of fission bombs and the recent development of the hydrogen (fusion) bomb. Not much has been explained about the radioactivity left in the air by the hydrogen bomb. There is a good chance that each old-style fission bomb, or perhaps a fraction of each, can be upgraded to an H-bomb, 1,000 times as powerful. The fission bomb will act as a detonator, starting the explosion of "fusion" ingredients such as heavy hydrogen and lithium. The end product of the fusion reaction is likely to be rich in free neutrons, which...