Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jolly good bash, in the best "sundowner" tradition. The big stone house on Kampala's Tank Hill swarmed with 180 laughing, hard-drinking whites clad in the most outlandish colonial costumes: solar topees and fly veils, pith helmets and mosquito boots. One girl came wrapped in a Union Jack. The idea was to spoof East Africa's rapidly fading tradition of Blimpism, and the guests had all been asked to "R.S.V.P. by native bearer in cleft stick or by tom-tom." Promptly at midnight the laughter stopped, and with mock solemnity everyone sang God Save the Queen...
Then, one night last week, the Tank Hill house where the party had been held mysteriously went up in flames, and gasoline cans were found in its gutted ruins. Wisely, the owner and his family packed up and left for England. Soon thereafter, they were unwillingly followed by the party's five organizers, a woman who had gone to the party in African dress, and eight white civil servants (including an assistant prisons commissioner) accused of having been there on the fatal night. Along with their families, the deportees were hustled abruptly onto London-bound airplanes-leaving behind them...
...bull, and the closer it comes, the bigger the thrill. In Miami some years back, one player was beaned and killed, and frontons tried to talk the players into wearing protective helmets. The suggestion brought hoots of disdain. Sneered one player: "Would a bullfighter enter the ring in a tank...
Backed by funds from the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Davis plans to set his 100,000-gal. tank in a mine at least 5,000 ft. deep to protect it from cosmic rays. Only neutrinos will reach the tank's supply of perchlorethy-lene, a cleaning fluid containing about one quarter of chlorine 37. Dr. Davis estimates that out of the countless trillions of solar neutrinos that will be passing through the tank, between four and eleven per day will react with chlorine 37 atoms...
Firmer Figure. To detect these few hits, a stream of helium will bubble through the tank, sweeping any argon 37 and carrying it to a charcoal filter. Then a special instrument will count the argon atoms by means of their radioactivity. Their number will be in direct proportion to the total number of neutrinos emitted...