Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...metal proved so strong that buildings as wide as 120 ft. could be put up without frames or trusses. To demonstrate the strength of his first frameless building he hung tractors weighing 40 tons from the ceiling. (In 1955 one of the buildings survived an atomic bomb test in Nevada with only a dented roof, while two rival types were blasted to bits...
...Ends Nevada Tests...
...show the least increase (the whole Southern Hemisphere has markedly less fallout than the Northern). Teas from China, Formosa and Japan may easily reflect mainly the fallout from Soviet bomb tests. Those from India and Ceylon can apparently only reflect the pooled fallout from Siberia, the Pacific islands and Nevada, which has gone around the world. Two reasons for tea's high count: the plant takes up minerals from the soil with great avidity, and the leaves are not washed to free them of last-minute fallout...
...yabyummy blonde compliantly strips to the buff to play the role of the "holy concubine" in the first of several "Zen Free Love Lunacy orgies." Rucksack Revolution. This may explain why Ray drags his sneakered feet a bit when the boys finally start climbing the Matterhorn in the Sierra Nevada. This climb, which occupies about a fourth of The Dharma Bums, is a writer's set piece, a hymn to nature. Kerouac's poetic imagery of towering snowscapes, frosty-breathed dawns, star-drugged nights suggests that the great American romance is still the Great Outdoors. At trip...
...candy cloud could hardly qualify as a bona fide mushroom, and the rumble was barely audible 30 miles away. But there was a watchmaker's genius in every dimension of the tiny (less than one kilo-ton), sophisticated atomic bomb, exploded from a balloon 500 ft. over the Nevada desert last week, and it demonstrated how far the U.S. has progressed in small-weapons development...