Word: fusions
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During the days of universal conscription, even before racial integration, poor Southern sharecroppers and rich New England WASPs shared barracks. The forced fusion of social classes during the Second World War (remember the ethnic composition of the platoons in John Wayne movies) was partly responsible for the unprecedented social mobility of the post-war period...
Professor of Government, Michael J. Sandel put the state's troubles within a national context. He said the fusion of three major trends--a sense of frustration from 1970s politics, former President Ronald Reagan's anti-big government rhetoric and the "unraveling" of inter-generational agreements--helped create the rancorous climate of state politics...
...instrument began the electronization of the earth. The telephone system has amounted to the first step toward global mental telepathy. The telephone and its elaborations (computer modems, fax machines and so on) have endowed the planet with another dimension altogether: a dissolution of distance, a warping of time, a fusion of the micro (individual mind) and macro (the world). Charles de Gaulle declined to have a telephone, undoubtedly because he had already fused micro and macro -- Le monde...
...conventional A-bomb to ignite a separate H-bomb. But Ulam, a brilliant mathematician, made a series of calculations that showed that the amount of tritium fuel required for Teller's bomb was prohibitive and that even when sparked by an A-bomb, it would probably not achieve fusion...
...bomb, who did? Hirsch and Mathews suggest that Teller himself may have inadvertently - assisted the Soviets by pushing for an early test blast. The 1952 explosion peppered the atmosphere with a telltale assortment of radioactive debris, including new atomic elements that could have been created only by a compressed fusion reaction. When Hirsch and Mathews asked Bethe if that fallout could have tipped off the Soviets, Bethe instantly said yes. Says Hirsch: "It was as though he had been waiting 35 years for someone to ask him that question...