Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China without the arms and planes that they had sought to carry on the fight. (The failure might have served them better than success, for the spectacle of the F.I.N. equipped with squadrons of Communist MIGs would have alarmed many of their foreign sympathizers, lost them much of the neutral and Western support they have managed to win.) Last week, as F.I.N. leaders gathered at the Tunis villa of "Premier" Ferhat Abbas, emissaries from the pro-rebel governments of Morocco and Tunisia turned up to urge them to fly to Paris and negotiate with De'Gaulle. The rebels, tattered...
...bickering in mutual hostility. Sly Patrice Lumumba was given his chance to form a coalition but failed. At week's end, the Belgian authorities turned to the mercurial Kasavubu. Even if he succeeded, he was given little chance of survival for long with Lumumba in opposition. Said a neutral diplomat in Leopoldville gloomily: "I have an uneasy feeling this place is tottering on the brink of disaster...
...real villains of the novel are the unscrupulous distillers-who make cheap whisky by adding prune juice to grain neutral spirits-and the temperance wowsers. The author writes of these malefactors with great eloquence and contempt, accusing the former of betraying mankind for profit and the latter of sexual irregularities...
...great bulk of the universe, including the stars and most of the matter between them, is made of ionized gases whose atoms have electric charges caused by the effects of heat or radiation. Unlike the earth's familiar water and air, most of whose atoms are electrically neutral, ionized gases are influenced by the magnetic fields that pervade space...
...formed in the heart of a hot and ionized cosmic cloud, Alfven believes, the sun's powerful magnetic field fended off the distant, electrically charged parts of the cloud. Gradually the cloud cooled, and some of its ionized atoms combined with electrons, making the atoms electrically neutral and permitting them to fall toward the sun. After they had fallen a few hundred million miles, they acquired tremendous speed, collided with the thin gas that surrounds the sun, were ionized again by the energy of collision, and then were stopped in their tracks by the sun's magnetic field...