Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matter of WHO. British Comic Terry-Thomas wears his upper teeth parted in the middle. His mustache looks like a displaced divot. His eyes seem to give him trouble; the irises spin about like berserk marbles. His brow crinkles and uncrinkles like an accordion. Terry-Thomas, born Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens, is one of nature's funnymen, and a good part of the pleasure of his movie company consists in watching him juggle his face...
...hydrogen atoms, act exactly like small bar magnets. When they are placed in a magnetic field, they tend to line up like a bunch of compass needles. If the magnetic field changes direction, it tries to pull the protons around with it. But protons have a mysterious property called "spin" that makes them react like small spinning wheels. When the magnetic field changes direction, they do not follow obediently. Instead, they resist the turning motion, just as if they were gyro wheels...
They found their answer in the enormous alternating gradient synchrotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. That mighty machine can spin protons up to the energy of 33 billion electron-volts, bounce them off targets and produce all sorts of atomic debris-including neutrinos. Physicists figured that any new type neutrinos created by this monstrous slingshot should have as much as i billion volts of energy. They would not be nearly so numerous as the neutrinos flooding out of a nuclear reactor, but their high energy should allow them many more ways of interacting with matter; as a result...
...match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of a Rosewall. Instead, he relies on craftiness and a unique ability to reset his wrist in mid-stroke-just before contact with the ball -that permits him to hit the ball flat, give it top spin, or impart a low-bouncing underspin. At Wimbledon last week, everything worked, and the ball acted as if it had corners. "No one could have lived with Laver today," said Australian Team Manager Alf Chave, after Laver's victory in the finals. "Mulligan's only chance would have been...
...particularize," he is fond of saying as he warms to an earnest exposition of the Communist economic threat. He exhibits a practiced columnar hand by asking himself a question and then answering it: "Can business discipline itself?" ("Yes"), or "Can we believe in statistics?" ("Sometimes"). Somehow the answers spin out to proper length...