Word: io
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week for earnest Joseph Mobutu, 30, the Congolese army clerk who became a colonel overnight and was now trying io run a nation. In any other revolution the boss might maintain his dignity by shooting a few enemies at dawn. But the Congo's strongman could only sit there and take it as everyone began to harass him. His control of the army was wavering, and everywhere, it seemed, there were plotters trying to push Patrice Lumumba back into power...
...M.I.T. has hunt ed for cosmic rays above this critical limit. The original energy of a cosmic ray can be measured by counting the second-ary particles that it showers down on the earth after colliding with air molecules in the high atmosphere. If its energy is 1016 (io million billion) electron volts, it generates millions of particles, mostly electrons and mesons which spread over many acres of ground. More powerful rays give even bigger showers...
Next morning the shower caught by Record No. 026508 went back to the Kirtland computer for a special full-dress analysis. Next day Dr. Linsley got the exciting news. The shower peppered the ground with io billion particles, and when it hit the atmosphere, it carried 20 to 40 billion billion electron volts. This made it by far the most powerful ray ever detected. Its energy, far above the critical limit, proved that it must have come from outside the Milky Way galaxy. Very likely it had been traveling for billions of years, pushed by unknown forces from an unknown...
...cold. I can remember how we used to ride the horses into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted to know the correct time, was Skowhegan's first selectman ("He had the most fascinating voice...
...deuterium is squeezed by a sudden magnetic shock. The squeeze produces an egg-shaped fireball about 0.8 in. long containing five times 1016 (50 million billion) deuterium nuclei at a temperature of 13,000,000°C. It lasts about 0.9 millionth of a second, and spits out about io million neutrons...