Word: right
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babe Ruth? Against Boston's right-handed Bill Voiselle, Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...violence or lawbreaking; in the same period, in 801 stories about white lawbreakers, only four headlines mentioned their color. The council's conclusion: "Crime is peculiar to no race, religion or national group. [Mention race only if] this information is a relevant part of the news." Relevant: NEGRO RIGHT TO PRIMARY VOTE UPHELD. Irrelevant: NEGRO ACCUSES WIFE OF STOVE-THROWING. Some Northern newspapers might copy...
Replied Sam Horvitz: "The whole thing boils down to whether a newspaper has the right to accept or reject advertising . . . We're in good company-the Du Ponts, the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, and now the Lorain Journal...
After the President's announcement last week of the U.S.S.R.'s progress in making an atomic bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nobel-Prizewinner Harold C. Urey spoke for U.S. scientists. Said he: "We were never so sorry in our lives that we were so right." Since June 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had shown on its cover two clock-hands pointing to 11:52. Individual scientists, groups of scientists and scientific associations have solemnly warned, time & again, that the clock would soon strike twelve...
Plutonium is trickier. It is made in a pile consisting of natural uranium (mostly U-238) rods imbedded in super-pure graphite. When everything is just right, a chain reaction starts. Plutonium can be separated from _ uranium by comparatively simple chemical refining. But the piles themselves are not simple. If they don't work just right, they don't work...