Word: wish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John G. Morrill, general manager of the Coop, said yesterday, "If these kids intend to try for a quorum, I wish they'd come in and tell us. So far all we've had is rumor. We're certainly not attempting to keep anyone from running, but if 1500 people try to jam into Sever 35, it will look as if we're keeping them out and we're not. We have nothing to hide...
...Death Wish. Other names usually mentioned only as footnotes in stories about the A-bomb suddenly acquire personality in Lawrence and Oppenheimer. While wiser and more experienced scientists at a Los Alamos meeting discussed a gun-and-bullet technique for igniting the Abomb, tall, bony Seth Neddermeyer sat quietly, visualizing uranium spheres squeezed like oranges. Finally, he spoke up haltingly for the principle of implosion, understanding it instinctively but expressing it so clumsily that he made little impression on anyone-except Oppenheimer, who encouraged him to devise what finally became an efficient triggering mechanism for nuclear weapons...
...there was Louis Slotin, a morose Canadian with an apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine...
Workmen are constructing a three-foot indoor fence around the reserve section which will force students who wish to use reserve books to get them from a member of the library staff...
...hope in the air. Hope that the administration had realized that students could make important contributions to the running of the College. An invitation to the first meeting of the Council would have been a symbolic statement of the administration's trust in students and of its sincere wish to see students participate...