Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within a few seconds and would incinerate virtually everything within a five-mile radius. Although fog or industrial smog would greatly decrease the effect, exposed persons would suffer third-degree burns out to ten miles and blistering out to 15. Within seconds after the heat would come the blast wave; reinforced-concrete buildings might remain standing within five miles of ground zero, but conventional frame structures would probably be wrecked up to ten miles away. Flying shards of glass and other debris could kill thousands; even human bodies, catapulted by the blast, could become deadly missiles...
...reinforced-concrete shelters protect against blast as well as fallout. The Bristol shelter lies under 40 inches of radiation-resistant material, can house and feed 1.500 employees for two weeks. Water is drawn from underground wells, and a pulsating communications center is equipped to send and receive short-wave messages. The shelter can withstand blast and fallout from a 20-megaton bomb five miles away...
According to quantum theory, an electron in an atom can exist at any one of several discrete energy levels. When an electron falls from a higher level to a lower one, the atom gives off radiation at a specific frequency--for example, a microwave or a light wave...
...WAVE of new magazines, most of them quasi- political, have accompanied the growing sense of student community. Of these, none is more committed to accurately and strengthening the current of among the students and young professionals than New University Thought. A handsome quarterly published at the University of Chicago, NUT is a far more thorough and perceptive index of student activity than and political magazines which have recently found the new generation so enthralling...
During the past week, a wave of demonstrations including as many as 3000 students has swept across the University of Connecticut. The issue at stake is the freedom of the college newspaper, the Connecticut Dally Campus...