Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Part of All." Acheson himself was well aware of his plight. In his policy of "total diplomacy," he would need support both in Congress and in the nation. Soon he will have to urge Congress to admit more imports from abroad, a program which may stir the wrath of many a special interest. A man who constantly talks about the people but feels himself remote from them, he recently confided to friends his fear that the average citizen was not willing to support the sacrifices he thought were required. "All affairs are a part of all people," Acheson told...
...rays of the Illinois betatron are too powerful to use in treating cancer or for photographing, say, the innards of battleships. Instead of merely passing through matter, they stir up showers of high-speed electrons which fog a photographic plate. The principal purpose of the Illinois betatron will be to produce copious supplies of mesons, the particles which are thought to be connected with the "binding force" that holds atomic nuclei together. Powerful X rays knock mesons out of the nuclei. Said Professor Donald William Kerst, developer of the betatron and builder of the Illinois machine: "We are in business...
...newest addition to their menagerie installed in public view two weeks ago, they experienced a pardonable glow of' civic pride. The newcomer was a full-grown leopard, brought straight from the jungles of India and probably one of the toughest tomcats ever to wind up in stir...