Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winding up their 57-day trek (of 14,450 miles) about Australia, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh drove out into the countryside from the bustling city of Perth and ate a leisurely picnic lunch. Two days later, leaving in her wake the cacophonous cheers and steam whistles, the Gothic hove westward across the Indian Ocean, bound for the Cocos Islands and Ceylon...
Those were the days of the "flying wedge," a V-shaped offense (now long outlawed) that cut through defenses like a bulldozer. Pudge devised the classic counter-maneuver: "As the wedge formed, I backed away to get a running start, put on full steam ahead, took off like a broad jumper, knees doubled up, and soared." When soaring Pudge crashed headlong into the man leading the V, the wedge disintegrated...
...slightly enriched" uranium (more U-235 than in natural uranium), and its moderator and coolant will be ordinary water at 2,000-lbs.-per-sq.-in. pressure and a temperature between 500° and 600° F. This is not high pressure or temperature for a coal-burning steam plant, but it is unusual for a nuclear reactor, and Dr. Smyth anticipates a certain amount of trouble. He does not expect that the plant will produce power at a competitive cost, but he hopes that in practical operation it will show how costs...
...high temperature (which favors efficiency) without high pressure, another reactor will have heat-resistant graphite as its moderator and will be cooled by a molten sodium-potassium alloy. Still another will have a novel gimmick. Its cooling water will be allowed to boil, and the steam generated will be used directly to drive a 5,000-kw. turbine. This cuts out the conventional heat exchanger used in the reactor of the submarine Nautilus to generate nonradioactive steam. Dr. Smyth did not say so, but the turbine will probably become so radioactive that it cannot be approached by humans...
...bird called "McCarthy's methods." His albatross has brought him big headlines, but it has also brought him bitter criticism. This week, as a result of his methods in his battle with the Army, the G.O.P. high command was plotting ways to take away some of his steam...