Word: ritson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...area, as scientists debated whether it would be safe to put out the strange, new-style fire with old-style water. The decision was made to go ahead, and hoses poked into the reactor soon put out the fire. The alert was canceled, and the single casualty, Worker Stan Ritson, who got unpleasantly radioactive, was scrubbed over and over and sent home with all his body hair shaved...
Three other Graduate School students won Honorable Mention. Jess B. Bessinger 4G for "Robin Hood in the Forest of Philology: The Ballads After Ritson"; Geoffrey B. Riddehough 1G for "Trogon Isolation in Greek Drama"; and Edward E. Hunt, Jr. 4G for "The Biological Study of Human Evolution...