Word: thermonuclear
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...standard thing is to feel in the gut that middle-class values are all wrong," says a West Coast hippie. "Like the way America recognizes that Communism is all wrong." They feel "up tight" (tense and frightened) about many disparate things -from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war. Hallucinogenic drugs like marijuana and LSD, they believe, are the knives that cut those knots. Once unleashed, most hippies first become insatiable hedonists, smoking and eating whatever can turn them on in a hurry; making love, however and with whomever they can find (including "group grope") that "feels good...
...tapioca pudding. . . A homemade pie makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight as he says everything else, with authority...
...Geneva's Palais des Nations, where Soviet and American disarmament negotiators have been trying for six years to forge a nuclear non-proliferation pact, European concern was focused on the possibility that such a treaty could forever foreclose the Continent's option of becoming an equal thermonuclear power. Over those specific negotiations, with which Humphrey was immediately concerned, hung the intertwined questions of Viet Nam and East-West rapprochement. Through it all, the Vice President-plainly relishing his liberation from the domestic creamed-chicken circuit-enjoyed more grand ceremony and grand cru wine than could be served...
Though, as tomorrow's historians, they may ultimately credit their elders with a certain degree of prowess in staving off thermonuclear war, many pop-psych their growing pains in terms of the atom. "We're the Bomb Babies," says Los Angeles City College Student Ronald Allison, 23. "We grew up with fallout in our milk." The hyperbole may sound sentimental, but because of the Bomb, some Now People reach their teens feeling that they are trying to compress a lifetime into...
...years away, its characteristics have universal implications. Most astronomers agree that the sun formed from a slowly rotating nebula-a cloud of dust and gas that gradually contracted because of gravitation, and began to rotate faster. When pressures at the dense center of the shrinking cloud produced enough heat, thermonuclear reactions took place and the sun began to burn, still surrounded by the outlying portions of the cloud-apparently the current state of R Man's evolution. As more of the particles fell toward the burning center, or collected into orbiting globs of matter that eventually formed the planets...