Word: reacts
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...stripped of an ablative coating that has protected the uranium from the 1000° F. temperature generated by air friction (solid uranium will ignite at 338° F.) As the bare depleted uranium comes in contact with steel, an exothermic, or heat-producing, effect occurs when the metals react chemically. This instantaneous heating, combined with the searing heat of impact, raises the temperature of the surrounding steel to such a degree that the flechette literally melts its way through, leaving a hole many times its own diameter...
Whether the plan is passed by Congress or not depends on how the extra-governmental groups react," Andrew M. Gleason, professor of Mathematics and a member of the panel, said Friday. "What we need is some group with a Congressional lobby to get behind it and push...
...film starts with a hypothetical Communist attack on West Berlin. The British government declares a state of national emergency, and the scene changes to Rochester to see how people react. And they react like animals. A beefy homeowner proudly points to his homemade sandbag shelter and, lying next to it, a shotgun for use on neighbors who try to push their way in. (The average family, as building contractors and lumber dealers push up prices, can afforod one sandbag and a few boards...
...prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked up "for nearly half the steel tonnage produced in this country," and a flock of telegrams urged other producers not to follow Republic...
Beating the System. Holt has noticed that children react by employing clever stratagems to beat the system and find that right answer. They detect the way a teacher unconsciously leans toward the correct answer of several on the blackboard; a student looks confused or stays silent until the teacher keeps asking leading questions and almost answers himself; other students mumble answers, aware that the teacher is attuned to the right answer, and will assume it was given. They fence-straddle, avoid commitment, live for the teacher's approving "yes." It becomes so automatic, Holt writes, that when he selects...