Word: swarmming
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...magnet is quiet, snoring softly, but in a ring-shaped vacuum chamber running around inside it, a dangerous, man-made genie throbs and thrashes. Out of an electric arc springs a swarm of protons (hydrogen nuclei). Powerful forces grab them and speed them down a channel toward the great machine. They sail into the chamber, and the magnet steers them in a circular orbit...
...Times to the Moon. The protons keep together like a swarm of bees, and each time they circle the track, they get a boost of electrical energy that increases their speed. Round and round they go, 4,000,000 times in 1.85 seconds. After they have traveled 300,000 miles (1.25 times the distance to the moon), they are moving at almost the speed of light, and each proton carries an explosive cargo of energy...
...lined, his hair has only a few flecks of grey, and his springy step is more like that of a sophomore late for class than that of a man in charge of nine separate faculties, more than 3,000 teachers and scholars, and 10,155 students, not counting a swarm of Radcliffe girls ("We are not coeducational in theory," said former President Conant, "only in practice"). He is the first non-New Englander and the second non-Bostonian* ever to achieve his position. More remarkable, he was born and bred in Iowa (a place that Boston dowagers have allegedly been...
...Commissioner of Welfare, ruled that the show needs a city license as a welfare agency because of its "public solicitation of money," and ordered an examination of Strike It Rich's books and records. McCarthy also fired a blast at the show for luring to Manhattan a swarm of unfortunates who, failing to get on the program, must then apply for public relief. Meanwhile, Travelers Aid denounced the show as a "headache" and reported that the society received as many as five appeals a day from frustrated contestants whose woes were not dramatic enough to get them...
...stand with Rickover were Admiral Robert Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, and a swarm of the Navy's highest brass, industrialists. Senators, atomic scientists-and Sponsor Mamie Eisenhower, carrying a big bunch of roses and smiling pertly at everyone. The Coast Guard band played a specially written march, The Nautilus, and then there were the speeches. "A launching," said Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "is always a prophetic and romantic occasion, but this literally transcends all which have gone before. For the Nautilus is ... something new under...