Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variable stars, says Stanley-Jones, may work the same way. When the star is in ai normal quiescent condition, its heavy fissionable atoms are too far apart for a chain reaction to get started. Being heavy, they sink gradually toward the center of the star. As they sink, they approach one another. When they get close enough, a chain reaction is set off. Its heat and radiation make the star expand until the fissionable materials in it are too far apart to react any more...
...outlook, our insight and foresight, our Christian endeavor to get right with God and our neighbor. No wonder we become so nervous and fearful when we look at the world's disorder-like Peter when he looked at the stormy waves in which he was destined shortly to sink...
Occasional spells of poor passing, failure to sink closeup shots, and unpredictable defense work marred the team's debut...
...Criminal Mind. In Salmon, Idaho, G.I. Hurley reported to police that someone had stacked all his furniture by the front steps, stolen the house. In Winnipeg, thieves broke into a house, took nothing but the kitchen sink...
...crisis of another sort. It was nearly curtain time, and the conductor was ill. Who would conduct Carmen? In desperation, the director grabbed the 18-year-old singing coach, and ordered him into the pit. "I had no preparation," says Fritz Reiner of that night. "It was sink or swim. I swam...