Word: rams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Topsy (she "just growed") is the simpler of the two. Her essential part is a vertical hydraulic ram that carries a subcritical mass of fissionable material surrounded by a casing of neutron-reflecting material. When the ram rises, it slowly pushes its dangerous load against the base of another subcritical mass. When the two are joined, they are still barely subcritical. Then the machine pushes rods of natural uranium into holes in the neutron reflector. The reaction starts and gathers momentum until the distant operators, or the automatic safety devices, make Topsy "scram", i.e., pull the masses apart...
...animal matter, Bhave consented. He improved almost immediately. During his convalescence, Nehru and Prasad flew down for a visit. And his disciples carried on with Bhoomidan-yagna, collecting 33,000 acres of land. When Bhave took to the road again, the donations came in so fast that the ash ram's bookkeeping system was almost snowed under. Last week, after 110 miles of dusty tramping in Bihar, he had picked up another 365,000 acres...
...your musket! Poise your musket! Join your rest to your musket! Take forth your Match! Blow off your coal! Cock your match! Try your match! Guard, blow, and open your priming-pan! Charge your musket! Draw forth your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick! Put in your bullet and ram home! Present! Give fire! Dismount your musket! Uncock your match! Return your match! Clear your pan! Prime your pan! Shut your pan! Cast off your loose powder! Blow off your loose powder! Cast about your musket! Trail your rest! Open your charge! Withdraw your scouring stick! Shorten your scouring stick...
...Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
...rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double ram's-horn. Pilgrims wearing rich prayer shawls cried out in jubilation, dancing and clapping their hands to the jangling of tambourines...