Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their meeting. "'E's a Liverpool man," was all one pimply-faced steward could say about him. Others knew that Murphy had come down from Merseyside the day before, after having helped organize a wildcat strike whose aims were to tie up Liverpool and oust the rather tame leadership of the National Union of Seamen. '"E knows what we want," an oiler told a reporter...
...drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...
...International Cigar Band Society, 75 strong, gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day meeting, noted mournfully that "cigar bands today are tame and unimaginative." Said President G. A. Greasby, of Milwaukee (who has collected 40,000 different bands): "We have hopes that the rococo will return when the new shipment from Holland arrives. Our only salvation lies abroad...
Essentially, the tame bomb is a "pile" like the original uranium pile at the University of Chicago. But uranium needs slow-moving neutrons to make its atoms split. Thus, a uranium pile is made up of small rods of uranium embedded in a large mass of graphite. Plutonium is different: its atoms can be split by fast neutrons. So a pile made of plutonium needs no graphite or other "moderator." The "Nagasaki model" atom bomb is a plutonium pile that reacts so quickly that it blows itself (and the neighborhood) to bits in millionths of a second...
...motion. How they solved the problem has not been fully explained. Uranium piles are kept from reacting too fast by inserting cadmium rods into the graphite. The rods absorb neutrons and check the action. The more cadmium, the slower the pile percolates. Some similar method may be controlling the tame plutonium...