Word: neutralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slowly, warily, all but imperceptibly, the Administration may be inching its way back to a role in Middle East negotiations. Policymakers are far from convinced, however, that the time is quite right. Said a senior official last week: "We are shifting from neutral to first gear, but we're not at cruising speed...
...with the fact that nine black men and Bird started the last All-Star game. Granting it is unseemly, is it even conceivable that the best basketball player in the world is white? "It's weird," agrees Marques Haynes, the old Fabulous Magicians barnstormer, a neutral expert, "but it's true...
Even in space, particle beams that carried an electrical charge would be bent off course by the earth's magnetic field. To be effective as missile or warhead zappers, the beams would have to be made neutral, which involves a process of accelerating, aiming and focusing charged particles by electromagnets, then stripping off the charge just before the beams are shot out the end of an orbiting device. Why bother with them then? Primarily because the beams, which work by frying the innards of a missile or warhead with radiation, in principle are more lethal and yield a surer kill...
...neutral zone becomes the twilight zone, and some of his victims see stars...
There's nothing neutral about that