Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little was done to change the relationship. Research in the Health School continued to mushroom rapidly. With the arrival of World War II, a heavy burden fell on the school. Any reorganization had to be shelved in the face of increased research for the war effort. Under the auspices of the Army public health program, the school played a major role investigating new health problems. With the end of hostilities, Harvard saw a pressing need for specialists and adapted itself to cope with a world torn by destruction. Reorganization plans were taken down, dusted...
...about to disappear over a low ridge which lay between me and the center of the city . . . Suddenly, there was a tremendous flash, far brighter than the sun . . . The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground. As I scrambled to my feet, I saw the great mushroom of smoke rising into the sky . . . The skin of my bare arms seemed as if it had been held before a hot fire and was tingling ... I was wearing dark-tinted spectacles at the time ... I thought this fact might be of interest to Ophthalmologist Rose and Biophysicist Buettner...
...Magnitude. "From now on," said Truman, in implied admission that the U.S. has the hydrogen bomb, "man moves into a new era of destructive power, capable of creating explosions of a new order of magnitude, dwarfing the mushroom clouds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . . . The war of the future would be one in which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past-and destroy the very structure of civilization . . . Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men. We know this...
...Then it rushed into the base of the column and up, clearing the air so that you could see countless tons of water rushing skyward-drawn up the column by that tremendous unseen force. The column went up & up and finally mushroomed. About three minutes* later, the report, like a nearby cannon shot, hit us and was followed by several seconds of dull rumbling. Then the mushroom expanded into a free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column...
...watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...