Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Natural tritium is much too scarce to help the makers of hydrogen bombs, who will have to synthesize their tritium, presumably in a chain-reacting pile. The only use for it in sight at present is to trace the vertical motions of ocean currents. Since short-lived tritium originates in the atmosphere, only water that has been on the surface recently should have a full complement of it. Water that has spent many years in the ocean depths should be tritium-free...
Something was wrong with the way the Korean war was going. Since the commanders and troops had done well with what they had, it was not hard to trace the fault line back to the men who prescribe the pace of U.S. mobilization. The pace desperately needed to be stepped...
Last week the police of Miami (pop. 15,900) combed the city and found no trace of the booze-haunted family. But Republic Executive Editor Harry Montgomery refused to back down. Said he: "I don't think a human interest story hurts anyone . . . We have no apologies to make." Nevertheless, at week's end the Republic had published none of the scores of letters readers had sent the paper about "Just a Little...
...good accident picture on the front page of the newspaper." His vigorously abstract paintings might be interpreted by some as safety-first posters, but he denies any desire "to preach," tries to steer clear of "the morbid aspects of an accident" by painting his traffic victims without any trace of gore...
...Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards, teetering on roofs. In a still smoking area, littered with dead fish, four bodies were found, but that was all. There was no trace of the 31 men who had been working on the dock. They had been blown to bits...