Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report, AEC urged heavier stress on development of "breeder" reactors, which will create more nuclear fuel than they consume. Present-model nuclear reactors operate through fission of scarce and costly uranium 235. Natural uranium is mostly U-238; less than 1% of it is U-235. Breeder reactors would convert nonfissionable U-238 into fissionable plutonium, or convert the fairly common element thorium into fissionable U-233 (neither plutonium nor U-233 is found in nature). A few days before the 20th anniversary of the first chain reaction, AEC announced that its experimental plutonium reactor had achieved a self-sustaining...
...time since the Red Chinese breakthrough on the border last month, in a small way had gone on the offensive. In NEFA (North East Frontier Agency), an Indian patrol raided a Chinese strongpoint near Towang. killed a number of Communist troops and returned to its lines without loss. A heavier attack was mounted outside Walong where, after an artillery barrage, 1,000 Indian jawans (G.I.s) stormed into "the forward slopes of the Chinese position in spite of heavy enemy fire." The Chinese counterattack was beaten off and, at day's end the fighting flared north and west of Walong...
Foreign aid is in trouble again. Mr. Passman made heavier cuts than usual in Congressional allocations, and made them stick; Mr. Bowles, one of the program's fondest defenders, accused it of failing to require sufficiently high standards of planning; and now the agency director is about to pack his briefcase and return to New York, where no Congressman will ever come to shatter his sleep...
...outside their own lands. No such charge could be leveled against John Steinbeck, whose books have been translated into 33 foreign languages. Just possibly he reads better in some of them, but Dr. Uno Willers. secretary of the Nobel committee, admitted that criticism of the award had been even heavier this year than usual. Steinbeck himself, when asked if he thought he deserved the award, shrugged: "Frankly...
...immediate result of the flight was the probable cancellation of a second six-orbit jaunt. The next U.S. astronaut will probably fly 18 orbits early in 1963, staying in space for a full day. This will leave the U.S. still behind the Russians, whose heavier and better provisioned spacecraft have stayed in space for three and four days, but Astronaut Schirra-who is being called by admirers "the first real space pilot''-made a giant step toward catching...