Word: trickier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Plutonium is trickier. It is made in a pile consisting of natural uranium (mostly U-238) rods imbedded in super-pure graphite. When everything is just right, a chain reaction starts. Plutonium can be separated from _ uranium by comparatively simple chemical refining. But the piles themselves are not simple. If they don't work just right, they don't work...
When he takes over Redbook next month, Editor Nichols plans to run more nonfiction aimed at "the young marrieds," hopes to "merchandise the magazine" with trickier layouts and captions. And if stories call for that kind of illustration, Redbook readers may get an occasional helping of cheesecake...
...price (a well-guarded secret) looked adequate to Coward. The series of 13 transcriptions, each a half-hour in length, features nothing but Noel. Writing, song selection, announcing, and some of the singing are all his. Orchestrations and the trickier songs are left to hand-picked members of the Coward stage companies. The show is a straight, undeviating parade of old Coward scores, broken only by the composer's comments ("Listeners. This is a program of my own music. Songs and lyrics that I have composed over the past 25 years. I do hope that you will enjoy them...
...machines and their operators both had weaknesses. The liars, gaining experience, became so accomplished that Policeman John E. Reid, Chicago's lie-detector expert, has had to modernize his machines to cope with trickier lying...
...cool, rocky Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, overlooking the strait where Lake Huron joins Lake Michigan, 43 members of the Republican Post-War Advisory Council met this week to chart their course through trickier waters. Their problem : what statement of foreign policy will best suit and serve the people of the Republic and therefore the Party? Whatever should come out of the meeting, it was clear from the start that G.O.P...