Word: sustainable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into a green duffel bag and a green foot locker that bore the stenciled words, "Lance Cpl. C. J. Whitman," he stuffed provisions to sustain him during a long siege and to cover every contingency: Spam, Planters peanuts, fruit cocktail, sandwiches and boxes of raisins, jerricans containing water and gasoline, rope, binoculars, canteens, transistor radio, toilet paper, and, in a bizarre allegiance to the cult of cleanliness, a plastic bottle of Mennen spray deodorant. He also stowed away a private armory that seemed sufficient to hold off an army: machete, Bowie knife, hatchet, a 6-mm. Remington bolt-action rifle...
...order for such a bomb to explode, the fissionable core material of plutonium (sketch point E) must be raised to a supercritical mass, the point where sufficient neutrons are released and react with the core material to sustain violent nuclear reactions. In the implosion bomb shown in the sketch, shaped charges of high explosives (B) are simultaneously triggered by detonators (A), the force of the explosions being directed inward, rapidly compressing the plutonium around a beryllium neutron source (D). In less than a millionth of a second, the supercritical mass explodes...
...first time late in adolescence and proceeds to tailor his style to the crowd. He has not grown up on a bull farm and he has little knowledge of the animal he must fight. Thus when the first wound comes, there is only the threat of the poorhouse to sustain him in the ordeal of his comeback...
...about Johnson's decision to head off a potential Communist takeover in the Dominican Republic last year, this month's peaceful elections in that country have amply vindicated the American intervention. And U.S. troops in Viet Nam are inflicting the kind of losses that no enemy can sustain indefinitely. Moreover, as the President said at a week's end press conference: "By every evidence available to us, the majority of the people of South Viet Nam seem determined to fight for the right to work out their own affairs. They want to go forward with economic reform...
...Philosophical fashion may have passed Hocking by, but there is an unmistakable aura of living truth about many of his ideas. "Democracy," he declared in 1946, "is the most difficult and perilous form of government because it calls for unselfishness on the part of officers and voters alike. To sustain this high morality against the tide requires religion, because it is only religion that makes morality a command of the cosmos...