Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...
...those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...
...printed the money to pay the miners who produced the tin that brought in the dollars needed for development. It calculated that greater farm production (lessening dependence on dollar-bought food) and greater exports of dollar-earners like oil might balance off trade before the boliviano went into a spin...
...Brien put begins with the putter at the rear of the ring, crouching low over his right leg, his back turned to the shot's line of flight. Since the seven-foot circle allows scant running room, the added speed generated by the 180° spin before the shot is released makes a tremendous difference...
...gondola began to spin crazily, 14 miles above the earth, and the great gasbag would not stop descending. Apparently a malfunctioning valve on the balloon had begun to release helium. The men radioed that the balloon was out of control. They dumped all the ballast and strapped themselves to the gondola's seats. "We are calm, cool and collected," they radioed. "We think we'll stay with the balloon as long...