Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidence of a prehistoric, spontaneous nuclear reaction was discovered by researchers at the French uranium-enrichment center at Pierrelatte. Analyzing uranium from the Oklo mine in Gabon, Africa, they found that it contained an abnormally low proportion of uranium 235, the radioactive isotope that powered the first atomic bomb with its awesome energy. In all other known uranium deposits-including a sample brought back from the moon by Apollo astronauts-U-235 invariably makes up .72% of the uranium ore; but the samples from the Oklo mine, which was opened in 1969, contained as little...
...Marsh (Jones) got his man at the bottom of the hill. I got mine at the top." Hughes said last night. "I was running in the flat and could see everyone. I counted, and saw somebody had to move, so I moved...
...meet for the first time. "Please don't tell me I'm old for my age," Jaimie wearily replies to a bit of elementary flattery. Peter tries for a fast recovery: "All right, as long as you don't tell me I'm young for mine." Jaimie looks at him with almost ducal contempt and replies, "That's obvious." With more of that kind of kinetic tension and a great deal less clinical dramaturgy, Rivals might have made a good movie...
...involved with the McCarthy campaign by a fluke. He needed someone, and I was free. It was a responsibility I couldn't refuse, he was he most hopeful thing happening in this country. (I was known in certain literary political circles as a "radical," and a friend of mine knew McCarthy and showed him some essays I had written on education in impoverished schools. McCarhy liked them...
...ground floor. The role was written for me by Philip Fenty, a friend of mine from Cleveland. After I did The Organization, he was cine president of Creative. Advertising, very Madison Avenue, and decided he wanted to do films..He thought I was saleable, and I encouraged him. He finally wrote a script, with my assistance, then he went out and found a producer, Sig Shore. I never believed for an instant we were going to do this film. But then we auditioned actors, and selected Gordon Parks, Jr., as director