Word: heroicizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very act of recalling its historic impact raises the question: Would the U.S. ever again give itself to an undertaking of such boldness and magnitude? Surely some of the world's conspicuous difficulties - the food and energy shortages, to name but two glaring ones - seem deserving of comparable heroic efforts. Such problems so far, however, have inspired occasional grand rhetoric without matching action. So perhaps a better question is: Could the U.S. today even muster the combination of generosity, self-sacrifice and determined will that it dedicated to the rescue of Western Europe? Does the national character remain capable...
Tiny Bombs. Still, to join enough deuterium and tritium nuclei to sustain a fusion reaction requires heroic efforts. Deuterium-tritium gas mixtures must be heated to as much as 100 million degrees Celsius and be maintained at that temperature for about one second at a density of about 1014 (100 trillion) particles per cubic centimeter. Scientists have taken two different routes in their efforts to achieve these critical conditions. One is to use a "magnetic bottle" -an enclosing magnetic field-to contain the hydrogen fuel. The other is to use lasers or electron beams to make miniature hydrogen "bombs...
...recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...
...wood to coal, then later from coal to oil and natural gas. Columbia University Historian Henry Graff sees the current crisis more grandly, calling it "the Pearl Harbor of the Industrial Revolution." He is not certain that Americans, more than people anywhere else, are ready to meet the challenge. "Heroic periods are easier to read about than to live through," he notes...
...Heroic People, a film documentary-- Science Center...