Word: sharping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to commend TIME on its excellent report on Space and the Radiation Belt, which featured the contributions of my brother, James Van Allen [May 4]. I can attest to the accuracy and sharp insight of your staff in regard to the personal aspects of this story...
...want to waste it," he said once. But on Nov. 2, 1956-the night after his masterful Suez speech at the U.N.-he suffered the first abdominal pains of his fateful illness. Next day Walter Reed surgeons removed a malignant lesion from the lower intestine. Last February, after a sharp attack of diverticulitis, he flew to London, Paris, Bonn to consult with the West's leaders and to inspire new unity and new firmness on Berlin; he could scarcely walk, scarcely eat. "If it isn't cancer," he told a friend before leaving, "then I feel the trip...
...cruiser. It capsized. Father Frank Rich was heard to scream: "Here we go." Those were his last words. Del Rich pulled his wife from under the boat, and they clawed to shore, watching father and mother bob downstream. Exhausted and distraught, they prayed. Then they limped upstream over sharp limestone, looking for help. "Someone will come," said Penney. "We were not saved from the water to die on the shore...
...each of them a gigantic explosion tossing gas and magnetism deep into space. Blasts of charged particles crossed millions of miles of space and smashed into the earth's magnetic field. In each case there was no warning of the approaching storm; it hit the earth with a sharp initial pulse, lasting about a minute and followed by violent fluctuations...
...sharp first pulse has long been a puzzle. But last week Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz of the Avco Research Laboratory at Everett, Mass, reported that he and his scientists had successfully simulated this solar phenomenon in the laboratory, and offered an explanation...