Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much new ground," sighed one State Department official wearily after Secretary of State Dulles finished another day of fending off his critics on the 30-man combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. At one point Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, who had put the stock market into a tail spin by his hazy handling of the 1955 financial hearings, even wanted to let the Eisenhower doctrine and the crisis go hang while he investigated U.S. Middle East policy all the way back...
...orange and yellow flame in the sky. The shredding planes veered away from each other, the smaller Scorpion plummeting to a puff of smoke in the green-brown Verdugo hills to the northeast. The DC-7B at first spiraled lazily, then, its dive steepening, went into a twisting spin, finally plunged with a thunderous roar onto the lawn of the Pacoima Congregational Church, just a block from the Junior High School. There on the athletic fields, 220 seventh-and eighth-grade boys were moving back into the gymnasium...
...anguished one of old Europe. A Legacy describes the Victorian and Edwardian heyday when well-to-do men and women wandered without let or hindrance in a network of social connections that ran from the tip of Scotland to the toe of Italy. They toiled not, neither did they spin (except in diplomatic circles), and Robert, Léon and Tzara struck them as being a lot more human than the middle and lower classes. The broken, frontier-barred Europe of today is the "legacy'' they left behind; their saddened heirs look back upon them not with...
Temperature has no effect on radioactivity, so the chilled, lined-up cobalt atoms went right on disintegrating and emitting electrons. According to the parity principle, the electrons should shoot off in equal numbers in both directions along the spin axes of the lined-up nuclei. Any preference by the electrons for either direction would prove that parity is not a real law of nature...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...