Word: yucca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When not pondering such puzzlers, Krutch is busy watching toads in glass jars, peering at yucca flowers with a flashlight at midnight, or driving a rattler away from a nest of hooded orioles...
Cried Flood, a witness at a recent Yucca Flat atomic test: "We were not back in these dens of sin and iniquity in Las Vegas. We were in the trenches with the troops. That is the last time I will try that one. The next time it is Las Vegas for me, too." When his amendments were beaten, Flood went along with the bill on final passage. The vote...
OVER in Nevada, TIME'S science expert, Associate Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard, waited for the A-bomb to go off. More than one dawn he stood on Yucca Flat in a milling mass of scientists, newsmen, civil-defense workers, military observers and state governors, just waiting. To the north, the Joshua trees stood like shaggy ghosts, and behind them lights marked the 500-ft. tower that held the bomb. Near by, TV crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough...
...like that last week when reporters first visited the village on Yucca Flat built to test the effect of an atomic blast. The reporters, who had waited 13 days for the explosion and another day to see what had happened, were primed to be shocked. They had seen the fireball dwarf the tiny village on the desert (three houses can be seen in the lower right corner of the picture above ), watched a train of dust follow the shock wave across the desert, felt its punch eight miles away...
...device at Yucca Flat was a small one. An H-bomb tested in the Pacific was 500 times more powerful...