Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale, which was everybody's pre-season Ivy choice, has disappointed in game after game this season. Although the Bulldogs are still unbeaten, they were held to a 9-9 tie by weak Columbia and barely managed to squeak past Cornell last week 23 to 21. Dartmouth's record is blemished by a 37-7 loss to Princeton, but the team has improved markedly since that humiliation. The Indians whipped Brown, 24 to 14, and last week looked like pros clobbering Harvard...
...classed the Chinese explosion as "weak," meaning its energy was equal to about 20 kilotons of chemical explosive. But only the testers themselves can now be sure whether the low power was intentional, to save precious fissionable material, or a result of poor design and construction. Radioactive particles collected by high-flying airplanes may soon provide an answer, however, for the particles prattle all sorts of secrets: whether the fissionable material used was plutonium or U-235; how much of it was wasted; whether an attempt was made to get fusion (hydrogen bomb) action...
Clicking Counters. Except for describing the bomb as weak, U.S. authorities at first released no figures, and the Weather Bureau, which traced the radioactive cloud, reported its directional progress only, making no comment on its intensity except to say that it was not strong enough to be at all dangerous. But in bomb-bitten Japan, where radiation watching is something of a national hobby, rooftop Geiger counters started clicking ominously. Scientists caught rain water to measure its activity, and jets brought samples down from the sky. About 30 hours after the explosion the radiation count at Niigata, 180 miles north...
...gave him peculiar insight into the behavior of men who were far worse in deed than he ever was in thought. In Kaputt, he wrote: "The Nazi has no fear of the strong man, of the armed man who faces him with courage. The Nazi fears the defenseless, the weak and the sick...
...cousins smuggle into the country on a cargo ship. Catherine (Eddie's niece) falls in love with the younger one--blond, a singer, weak, a maker of dresses. "The guy's not right," Eddie cries, and soon he is obsessed with breaking up the match. At last, he anonymously reports the illegal entry to the Immigration Bureau...