Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of all the circumstances," CBS firmly refused to yield. Moreover, all three networks informed Butler that, like editors of the older medium, they would go right on calling their own shots. The cub reporter of U.S. journalism had faced a challenge to its freedom, and had measured...
...role in history. In his memoirs he referred to himself as "Lafayette," in the manner of Julius Caesar. He once claimed grandiloquently: "I have vanquished the King of England in his might, the King of France in his authority, the people in their fury. I shall not yield to Mirabeaij." Hanged Talker. The biographers docu ment Lafayette wherever history found him - which was at the dead center of the libertarian movement...
...high-yield H-bombs of the current test program were dropped from aircraft and exploded high above the surface. Thus their fireballs did not concentrate their fury on a small area of coral, but spread it over miles of water. As a result, not much pulverized material was carried upward. The total radioactivity produced by such a bomb may be large, but most of the potential fallout is distributed high in the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine particles or even single molecules. Such impalpable stuff is slow to fall. Not much would fall in any one place...
...Clean" Bombs. The Strauss statement implies, however, that H-bombs have been made "clean" by something besides "operational factors." Nuclear pundits are already speculating about how the bombs themselves may have been changed so as to yield less fallout...
Ruggles and Kramish found that as far back as the 1920s, competent Soviet physicists were contributing to the birth of nuclear physics. In 1938, when the critical news came from Germany that neutrons make uranium atoms fission (split in two) to yield enormous energy, Russian scientists reacted as excitedly as their colleagues elsewhere, working with impressive skill to establish the same key facts which would decide whether large amounts of nuclear energy could be got from uranium...