Word: nugget
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...Never Saw Any." Throughout the Deep South, hundreds of segregationists rushed to send for copies of the Congressional Record and all the prurient details. Chortled Dickinson: "One of my colleagues just came back from a newsstand, and he said, 'Man, they've got three bestsellers-Nugget, Playboy and the Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander...
...know," he began, "it is said that gold never rusts. Twenty years ago, I put this gold nugget, this bill, away, and it has not rusted. It is just as good today as it was 20 years ago when I first tried to get it through the committee on the judiciary of the House of Representatives and it failed. I have been very patient and on many occasions have made speeches to advance this bill. But I was always frustrated...
...alternative to these proposals, Celler argued, would be "a veritable mishmash, a hodgepodge. I do not think you want that." He was right. The House accepted the bill by a voice vote and sent Manny Celler's nugget to the Senate, where passage looks as good as gold...
Implosion. Another nugget of information in the AEC report was word that the Chinese depended on an implosion (inward-striking detonation) of chemicals to compress their U-235 and make it fission. Such a device is more effective than shooting two chunks of fissionable material toward each other in an apparatus like a gun barrel, as was done in the U.S. bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The U.S. also used the implosion method in its earliest nuclear weapons. Although a surprising number of commentators assumed that use of implosion showed advanced skill by the Chinese, the AEC did not agree...
...George to the first commitment of his life. His cheerful young niece is got with child by, of all things, a plumber's helper. He decides he must help her. He concludes that the only way is to kill himself so that the girl will get his small nugget of otherwise untouchable capital. But he drinks too much and his ten-gin resolve to die dissolves into a sentimental 20-gin binge...