Word: shatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Temperature Does It. As far as nuclear research is concerned, the tremendous heat of the new-style explosion is more important than the H-bomb itself. The hotter the reaction, the faster atomic particles move. In the hottest reactions they may move at such speed that they shatter normally stable atoms. If these atoms are large ones, e.g., U-238 or thorium, their splitting releases still more energy. This process, now called thermofission, was described in the 1945 Smyth Report...
...morning next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
That anchor and pride of Republicanism, the great and prosperous state of Pennsylvania, went Democratic-solidly, surprisingly, and in a way that seemed to shatter the pathetic remnants of its once proud and efficient state G.O.P. organization...
...Crimson Ghost, the gang leader had a special gimmick that enabled him to electrocute his followers by remote control (their heads disappeared in a blinding flash). Another villain was pushed out a window-his body spread-eagled for maximum shatter...
First Day. An awareness that failure could shatter the Atlantic alliance lent a grave and urgent air to the chandeliered conference room where the nine foreign ministers assembled at the invitation of British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. They sat about a huge, hollow, rectangular table covered with deep blue felt-Chairman Anthony Eden, lounging debonairly; John Foster Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister...