Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vital Force? Nehru has called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...high commissioners forthwith did their best to repair the damage; they conceded the force of Adenauer's firm but tactful outlining of the German reaction. It was agreed that Adenauer should announce the 23.8? mark rate, with no conditions attached; then the coal problem would be handed over to a German-Allied committee...
...British public seems at least ten years off, but the manufacturers, Pye Ltd., were trying to sell closed-circuit installations to department stores, hospitals, universities. A Pye official even saw an atomic future for color-TV: "In industrial process, the watching of color changes at different parts of the reaction is of prime importance," he said. "With color-TV, the controller can see all that is scanned by the camera without endangering himself...
...raises his children and wins the affection of the community through his untiring medical service. For 20 years, he is completely accepted; then, abruptly exposed. The impact of this exposure on the little New England village is like that of flint on stone. Sparks fly--the sparks of bitter reaction--and the result is keen drama...
Poor Bombs Are Easy. The trick is to bring them together quickly enough. If they approach one another slowly, they begin to react before they are fully in contact. The heat developed drives them apart prematurely, and the reaction stops. In the bomb described in the Smyth Report, the masses were driven together, probably in millionths of a second, by some such "low-order explosive" as TNT. Even if the Russians did not do as well as U.S. scientists, their less efficient bomb would still produce an "atomic explosion...