Word: matter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first wholly partisan political stumping since he took office. Campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey. Nixon mentioned the war only once -and that was to tell an airport crowd in Morristown, N.J., to be sure to listen to his speech this week "on that particular matter...
...Justices brought an urgent new perspective to the complex and long-delayed process of integration. The decision establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before the start of the 1970 school year, though full integration in the physical sense is a very different matter. At the same time, the judgment may well provoke confusion, scattered violence and, temporarily at least, some damage to public education in parts of the South...
...imply economic isolation, he added. "What it does mean is that we would like to dispel the myth that the U.S. is the instant messiah for miracles." The question remains whether Nixon's proposed partnership asks enough of the partners -either the Latin American lands or, for that matter, the U.S. itself...
...early 1950s, when Gell-Mann made his debut as a theoretical physicist, the discovery of a host of strange and short-lived bits of matter had turned the once orderly world of subatomic physics into what scientists called a "zoo." To bring some order out of the chaos, Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate...
...eightfold way" (after the eight ways that Buddhists use to stop pain). It organized the particles into groups of eight or ten members. To fill gaps in his table, he postulated yet unencountered particles. In 1964, his theory was strong]y confirmed by the discovery of a bit of matter that Gell-Mann had previously described: the omega-minus particle...