Word: ocean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who then believed Einstein, his equation explained how radioactive metals could keep on shooting out particles and radiation for millions of years, and how the sun could continue shining for even longer ages. It also aroused Sunday-supplement dreams of driving an ocean liner around the world by releasing the atomic energy locked in a cupful of water...
...European war was mainly a gasoline war; the Pacific is a fuel-oil war. To get fuel oil in the mighty fleets ranging the western ocean, the flow of oil of the whole world has been changed...
...Dump the bombs in the ocean? (A messy - and possibly dangerous - procedure...
...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...
...earth's gravity, they proposed to build a platform for launching rockets into interstellar space and for harnessing the sun's heat. By use of a huge reflector, like a burning mirror, they calculated that enough heat could be focused on a chosen area to make an ocean boil or to burn up a city in a flash. Their sun gun could also be used, they pointed out, to produce steam and electric power at global receiving stations...