Word: inert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard no hint of nonexplosive plutonium. But behind the Manhattan Project's secrecy curtain, it might have been created as early as 1943. Some physicists mentioned plutonium 240, which they thought might be made from the explosive plutonium (Pu-239), or from natural uranium. If it proved inert, like U-238, it could be mixed with Pu-239 to make it non-detonating. There is reason to think that both varieties of plutonium may be produced simultaneously, and ready-mixed...
...Firm Stand. "If we are to be a great power," he said, "we must act as a great power. . . . Our diplomacy must not be negative and inert." The U.S. must stand firm on its own principles-and against any "unilateral gnawing away at the status quo"; any aggression "accomplished by coercion or pressure"; any maneuvering "for further and undisclosed penetrations of power"; any imposition of troops "upon small and impoverished states"; against any "war of nerves to achieve strategic ends...
Down to the Roots. In his determination to foster a demagogic, nationalistic, anti-democratic setup in Argentina, Strong Man Perón was, in his own words, playing "a daring game." For he had only a part of the army, the police, the politically inert peones, and a frowsy minority of labor behind him. Unlike Hitler and Mussolini, he could count on neither capitalists nor the middle class for backing...
...Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, the Big Three, in Olympian isolation, molded a politically inert Europe. But there was life in the kneaded clay; last week post war Europe's face began to emerge. The destiny of Europe still depended mainly on relations between the U.S. and Russia, but Europe was acquiring recognizable lineaments...
...country might change its isolationist mind if a Nazi victory seemed imminent. The portraiture in Welles's European travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered his reputation for staring "dynamically...