Word: showering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helium nucleus, most powerful particle ever trapped, crashed into a 200-lb. stack of 300 silver bromide photographic plates suspended beneath a balloon that drifted last fall for eight hours at 116,000 ft. over Minnesota. The particle touched off a shower of electrons that streaked the plates with an expanding forest of lines. One puzzling fact: the intruder bumped into two silver or bromine nuclei, creating six mesons in the first collision and 64 in the second. Theoretically, the first collision should have produced more-not fewer-mesons than the second. Hunting for an explanation, Minnesota scientists are still...
...looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower in a hammock, intestinal irrigation "drop by drop...
Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words...
...compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying...