Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Long. But a second look may have been more meaningful. There had been hardly any effort to block the adjournment; in fact, the motions for adjournment were made and roared through by many of Long's own legislative leaders and henchmen. Ole Earl's own reaction was another clue. Rushing half-shaved from his barber's chair to the skyscraper state capitol, he arrived just as the adjournment vote was being tallied, made a speech which was a startling departure from his usual profane tirades (TIME, June 15). "I ain't mad at anybody...
...week's end. Chief Wood and six firemen fell sick. Doctors at first feared a dangerous late reaction to the fumes, which can cause suffocation, rated the men lucky that this did not develop...
Since it cannot sustain a chain reaction itself, natural thorium is not classified as a nuclear fuel but as a "fertile" material. The thorium may be placed in a reactor fueled with uranium 235. Neutrons produced by the fissioning U-235 are run through a moderator made of graphite or heavy water, thus slowed from 10,000 miles a second to a modest one mile a second. Fast neutrons would bounce off or pass through the thorium, but at this speed neutrons are moving slowly enough to be captured by thorium 232 atoms, turning them into unstable thorium 233. When...
Probing into farmers' political opinions, Lubell found a Democratic trend still running in the Midwest, but scant enthusiasm for Democratic presidential hopefuls. Adlai Stevenson's defeats in '52 and '56 count against him, Lubell found. "A blank stare was often the reaction I got to the names of [Minnesota's] Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, [Missouri's] Stuart Symington and [Texas'] Lyndon B. Johnson." Of all the Democratic hopefuls, Massachusetts' "John F. Kennedy emerges as almost the only one who stirs any real public interest." Among Republican voters, "Vice President Richard M. Nixon...
...Personal Victory for Nikita Khrushchev," and it became indelicate to attack the classic enemy, "American ruling circles." The "Paris-Bonn Axis" became the new target, and Communists sought to isolate West Germany's Konrad Adenauer as the only warmonger left. Only in Communist China was there a delayed reaction, and then a restrained and dutiful approval of the Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting (a similar lack of enthusiasm came from Formosa...