Word: stagg
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...producing 1,000 MW of power (vs. 850 MW for a typical U.S. nuclear generator), the Chernobyl unit had some design features dating back to the atomic pile that Enrico Fermi used in 1942 to create the world's first chain reaction at the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. Both systems employed graphite to moderate the nuclear reaction. Most U.S. units regulate with water instead. About half of all Soviet reactors employ graphite rather than water...
...just before 4 a.m. on June 5,1944, and the rain slashed at them "in horizontal streaks," Dwight Eisenhower recalled later. The commanders of Operation Overlord were gathering around the fireplace in the library of Southwick House, outside Portsmouth, to hear a Scottish group captain named J.M. Stagg predict the next day's weather. On the basis of Stagg's calculations, Eisenhower would have to decide whether to give the attack order to the nearly 3 million troops assembled in southern Britain for the greatest seaborne invasion in history, the assault on Hitler's Atlantic Wall...
Just the previous day, Stagg had warned that a gale would strike on June 5, and Eisenhower had reluctantly ordered a 24-hour postponement of Dday. The first troopships, already at sea, had to be called back. But now that the storm was actually upon them, Stagg offered what he called "a gleam of hope for you, sir." The next day, June 6, there would be some clearing of the skies, a break of perhaps 36 hours, no more. The cloud ceiling over the Normandy beaches would be about 3,000 feet, the waves only about three feet high...
...with just the right expression and gesture." The editors' choice: six-month-old Lisa Harap of Queens Village, N.Y., Munro's "wise" baby. Lisa becomes the youngest identifiable living person ever to appear on TIME's cover (the oldest: 96-year-old Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...course, Bryant hardly chased them. He caught up to history's most successful coaches with a mumbled apology. "Warner and Stagg are like Babe Ruth or Huckleberry Finn," he said. "I don't compare to them." This is how Bryant talked, and prophetic lines muttered by him over the past year or two could be repeated last week without a chill. Coming from him they were not ghoulish: they were true. What would Bear do if he ever quit coaching football? "Probably croak in a week." Where would he go? "I imagine I'd go straight...