Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another Eisenhower was also ready for the campaign. Appearing with the President last week at the Women's National Press Club dinner, Mamie Eisenhower heard herself twitted as "just a girl who can't say no," especially "to a man with a grin." Then she unfolded a wave and broke out with a smile that even her husband might have envied...
...minutes and 43 seconds after the explosion, the shock wave rocked the fleet, roaring dully in men's eardrums for some 30 seconds. The mushroom rose high above dark bands of natural clouds, showing traces of brown and small brilliant pinpoints of light, tinctured cerise and pink by the dawn. Ten minutes later the cloud towered 80,000 to 90,000 ft. above the sea. In five more minutes it stood 100,000 ft. up. Flattening out, its spread covered 100 miles. Winds bore the fallout far from inhabited land, away across the empty ocean...
Tons of CO2. The temperature of the earth's surface depends largely on two minor constituents of the atmosphere: water vapor and carbon dioxide. They are transparent to the short-wave energy (light and near infrared) that comes from the sun, but opaque to most of the long-wave heat radiation that tries to return to space. This "greenhouse effect" traps heat and makes the earth's surface considerably warmer than it would be if the atmosphere had no water vapor or carbon dioxide in it. An increase in either constituent would make it warmer still. Warm eras...
Riding on the crest of a three-game winning wave, the Crimson lacrosse team will probably be drowned tomorrow after the wave rolls down to New Haven and into a powerful Yale squad. The varsity has won its last three contests by increasingly larger margins...
...support of the Council's action, Abramson listed six reasons, the most immediate being current crowding in the Dunster Street building and the wave of new organizations gaining Council approval and demanding office space. These embryonic organisms have trouble surviving without regular office space, he asserted...