Word: slams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes place in the sun. Deep under the white-hot surface, the temperature stands at something like 20 million degrees centigrade. Under such extreme conditions all atomic particles are in violent motion. The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen (single protons) zip around with enormous speed. They jostle one another and slam against other nuclei -smashing some and joining others. A complex chain of reactions takes place involving carbon and nitrogen, but the final result is the fusion of hydrogen into helium...
...China is a willing ally of Stalinism, but nothing is to be gained by standing alone after Britain and other non-Communist nations recognize. ¶Why should the U.S. slam any door when diplomatic posts could provide observation points, when businessmen might profit from trade and the U.S. could have hostages against their safety in Chinese Communist diplomats here? ¶The Chinese are basically anti-foreign and will grow to hate Moscow string-pulling. So there is always the chance that China's Boss Mao Tse-tung will become another Tito. It might help to have an ambassador around...