Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Based on a three-year-old Rand Corp. estimate of the radiation that worldwide fallout from a relatively small (20,000-megaton) attack would scatter on fields, woods and other parts of "the natural environment...
...High Tests. If the Russians were trying to hide their tests, they would have held them underground. Underground explosions send no ordinary radio signals or barometric waves. They are invisible to radar, and they scatter no telltale fallout. But they do create powerful earth waves that travel in the earth's crust and deep through its interior. A powerful underground explosion registers on seismographs all over the world, and smaller explosions are detected at shorter distances. The fault of this system is that weak bomb waves are hard to distinguish from the waves of natural earthquakes. Some experts claim...
...people in the nearby Marshall Islands. When the Russians fol lowed with similar dirty tests, radiation increased all over the world. Especially frightening was the fallout of strontium 90, a deadly fission product that settles in bones and may cause cancer. The new Soviet test series will not necessarily scatter much-dreaded strontium 90, but radioactive products of some sort are sure to, result...
...This scatter-shot anthology includes some hastily-written and unincisive editorials, a copy of an address on America by Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, and two finely-wrought and dull poems reprinted from the Sewanee Review. Gabriel Marcel, whom I admire very much, has a reprinted and astoundingly short discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson...
...acting in both films is excellent, and makes up somewhat for the otherwise insufficient subtitles. Anita Bjork and Anders Hendrikson, the couple in On Payment, underplay their roles, but make effective use of subtle facial expressions. In A Doll's House Mai Zetterling is appropriately scatter-brained as the wife...