Word: squashing
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...physics student straight out of college, he was taken by his professor to work with the people at the University of Chicago under Enrico Fermi. At the age of 21, Agnew was one of 43 people to witness the world's first man-made nuclear chain reaction, in a squash court under the football field. A few years later he was testing yield-measuring devices at Wendover Air Base in Utah, where Colonel Paul Tibbets and the atom bomb crew were training in secret. What Agnew saw was much of the history of America's scientific and military progress toward...
...shown on a regular schedule in a small theater where the seats are carpeted rises. Hiroshima is never mentioned in this film, which for some reason begins with voices in prayer in church and the figure of Jesus covered with blood. Then the film proceeds to show the Chicago squash court and herky-jerky conversations among Szilard, Wigner, Edward Teller and the rest. A jalopy convertible winds up a mountain road in a scene that might have come from a Gene Autry western of the 1930s. There are sudden shots of the Statue of Liberty; sheep and golden flowers...
...novel takes place over the course of one day, Feb. 15, 2003, and follows the movements of a neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne, as he makes his way around his native London on the day of the largest anti-war demonstration England has ever seen. Perowne plays a game of squash with a colleague, muses on the operations he has recently performed, and is involved in a road accident with a man named Baxter. Later that evening, as Perowne prepares for a family meal, Baxter violently re-enters his life...
Even outside of the hospital, Saturday is a book intimately concerned with the mundane processes of the everyday. The squash game is reported almost point for point, as is Perowne’s cookery. Some of these passages contain stunning descriptions, but they are too self-involved, halting the flow of the book and dragging attention away from the at times intriguing melodrama of Perowne’s family and of the deranged Baxter...
...Honestly this is ridiculous.” said Faraz Munaim ’06, Munaim, who is also a UC representative from Cabot House, plays squash regularly with his blockmates at the QRAC...