Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their elegant laboratories near La Jolla, Calif., General Dynamics scientists are doggedly attacking a difficult problem: how to extract controlled power from hydrogen fusion. The pay off for their work is hidden in the future, but the powerful magnetic fields they have built to hold reacting hydrogen gas at 100 million degrees has already yielded a valuable practical "fallout." Those same magnetic forces used on a smaller scale have proved remarkably versatile for shaping metal...
...best part of love. Lawrence countered vehemently that fulfillment is everything, that sex is the one great, true thing in life. More explicitly than anyone before him, he sentimentalized the orgasm, in whose "final massive and dark collision of the blood" he saw man's apotheosis and fusion with the divine...
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Sometimes the author inserts a single, striking philosophic insight into a narrative passage. Writing of his love for foreign cities, he asks "and how came it that pleasure is so intertwined, so at home with Necessity?" Describing a mosque, he "sensed with deep joy the fusion of two great qualities: ecstasy and precision... For all this decoration is the dream of a master mathematician. As the line progresses and unwinds, it becomes the abstract expression--the distillation of all plants, all animals, and all thoughts...
...heat chimney. Into the chimney they dropped eight finned, 130 lb. bombs which spewed a cloud of minute silver iodide particles as they fell. The crystals acted like small ice "seeds," and supercooled droplets of water instantly froze around them. Instant icing released the latent heat of fusion, equivalent to the energy of eight 20-kiloton atomic bombs. In one hour, radar showed that a 160° segment of the chimney had been knocked out. Maximum wind speeds dropped by as much as 14% in the seeded sector. But two hours after seeding stopped, Esther had repaired the damage...