Word: works
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon the rash spread up Joyce's arms and down her body. The itching was almost unbearable. When Holdridge was shipped overseas, her rash went away. When he came back, so did the rash. Soon, on her way to work as a telephone operator in San Francisco, Joyce Holdridge was hiding behind a newspaper on the bus, wearing dark glasses to cover her swollen eyes, dressing in long-sleeved, high-necked blouses. In the evenings and on days off she never left the house, says she, because "I looked so terrible...
...King's detractors complain of his relative musical ignorance and object to his top-sergeant tactics in rehearsing for hours over the simplest phrases. His critics are also bitter because some "original Wayne King compositions" (Josephine, The Waltz You Saved for Me, Lullaby for Latins) are actually the work of several musical collaborators. To objectors King has an invariable answer: "The test is, do the people like it?" So far, they have...
Determined Nations. Some of the early guesses about the timing were remarkably accurate. In One World or None (March 1946), Drs. Frederick Seitz and Hans A, Bethe, who worked on the U.S. bomb, estimated that "any one of several determined foreign nations could duplicate our work in about five years." The Russians actually did it in a little over four years, counting from Hiroshima. But they may have started sooner than that, and they certainly had some help from German atomic scientists...
Well Enough. Probably the Russians are using one or both of these processes, which have the advantage of working well enough even when they don't work too well. In the diffusion process, for instance, the U-235 has only to be pure enough to be "fissionable." If the Russian apparatus is inferior, their U-235 is just as explosive as if it came from the great precision plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...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...