Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Particles. There is one other possibility. To give the temperature of a substance is merely a handy way of reporting the average velocity of its molecules or atoms. At temperatures up in the millions of degrees, atoms speed fast enough to smash other atoms, sometimes making them take part in energy-yielding "thermonuclear reactions." This is what happens...
...Wenzel jumps ship at the South American port of Caleta Colosal, he feels he has reached the world's dead end. It suits him well enough; through hard work and corner-cutting, he is soon the owner of a small fishery. But his business and his hopes go smash when he runs head-on into the big Nitra mining company, which bosses the country. Wenzel has to leave Caleta Colosal because he has persuaded the Nitra workers to strike for 10 pesos more a day. But, like Hemingway's hero in For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Until that last hour, the audience had begun to worry. Would the good fellows from the sticks ever really show up all those tough, wily city slickers in time for a smash ending? Even the Senators themselves-Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey, Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, Wyoming's Lester Hunt -had seemed a little unsure...
...been Derby Day, an event strictly for the hearty. Donning inventively outlandish costumes, Yalemen and their dates pile into trucks, horse-drawn wagons, old jalopies and chartered buses, drive ten miles to Derby, Conn. (pop. 10,264) on the banks of the Housatonic. There they drink beer, play ball, smash each others' straw boaters, throw their girl friends into the river and generally have a loud time. Some time during the afternoon there are intercollegiate crew races, the ostensible reason for the whole celebration...
...pile-driving smash through the center of the Red lines...