Word: mined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what is this!" Garfield cried, toppling forward. Guiteau was captured immediately. He pleaded insanity of the "Abrahamic" variety-like Abraham in murderous pursuit of Isaac, he was in the command of a wrathful God "Let your verdict be that it was the Deity's act not mine," he told his jurors, but they took only 65 minutes to condemn him to death. Garfield, cheerful and brave throughout his struggle for life, died 80 days after the shooting...
...there are newer and better detection systems, but neutrinos are still fantastically hard to catch. Dr. Reines, who landed the first ones, is in charge of the South African work. The site was chosen because a deep mine was needed to screen out cosmic rays, which would interfere with the experiment. India has such a mine, but the Indians wanted to boss the experiment themselves. Reines turned to South Africa where the University of the Witwatersrand offered him an unusual laboratory: a gold mine near Johannesburg shielded by 10,492 ft. of solid rock...
...this snug foxhole, Reines will assemble a vast neutrino trap, designed at Cleveland's Case Institute. Even the most powerful cosmic rays do not penetrate to the depth of the gold mine, but the entire universe is believed to be swarming with neutrinos that will be deterred not at all by two miles of rock. Some of them are believed to carry unusual amounts of energy, and these fat neutrinos should be easier to detect than leaner ones...
Paul H. Buck, Carl H. Pforzhelmer University Professor: This man was a student and a friend of mine. I fully believe the stature of a man in the White House, as ultimately judged by historians, depends on what he did to build or destroy the faith on which men live. John F. Kennedy was working to convince people that American democracy was worth fighting for and saving. The haters killed him. I hope that from his death will come a reaffirmation of his faith, so that he shall not have died in vain...
...mine owners, who used to boast to foreign visitors that the Mikawa was an "underground palace," could have retorted that government inspectors had found Mikawa to be among the best-equipped mines in the country. The government could point out that the stretch of track where the collision occurred was equipped with modern safety devices-but they proved useless because the entire chain of events, from the derailment of the freight cars to the arrival of the third train, took less than 30 seconds...