Word: nugget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Johnston discussed UCS's concern for responsible use of nuclear technology, citing excerpts from the "Nugget File", a government report on nuclear accidents, recently made public through the Freedom of Information...
...course," he says, "But when it came time for recruiting, Dan Divine wasn't in the market for five-ten, 210-lb. centers." A pause. "Well," he adds, totally serious, "he let a prize nugget get away...
...load. During the afternoon, dozens of tea plates and spoons will be slipped into handbags as souvenirs. All done with gentility. Nell Jolliffe, who was awarded the Royal Victorian medal last month for her 58 years of dishing tea at garden parties, shared an insider's nugget: the royals have a special teapot and different tea from the serviceable Indian leaf poured for the rest...
...Pope startled his former neighbors with another new nugget of family information. Said he: "My prayer is for so many people who have died, beginning with my parents, my brother and my sister, whom I never knew because she died before I was born." Papal aides later explained that the girl, born three years before the Pope, lived only one day. His mother Emilia died years after that while giving birth to a second daughter, who was stillborn...
...tolerated in nuclear plants around the nation, including Three Mile Island. For example, the scientists contend that defects in 26 reactors built by General Electric might cause the release of radiation in an accident similar to the one in Pennsylvania. The scientists have also produced a pamphlet, called the "Nugget File," that describes mishaps at nuclear plants, like the use of a basketball to plug a pipe leading from a radioactive tank...