Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motions. But when Brown left and people filed out, no one was talking about SALT II; the disruption, though trivial, dominated conversation. And it disturbed Allison, who remembered when the students who sat quietly last Monday would have been shouting along with the two interlopers, when the charade fell apart just alittle...
When too many of these fuel rods pile up, though, they are moved to racks in a deep swimming pool for storage until MIT ships them to Barnwell, S.C., every year or so. The rods must be kept a certain distance apart to avoid a critical mass, which could set off a nuclear reaction. Reactor officials face a new problem since dump sites like Barnwell are increasingly hard to find...
...billion light-years from earth (meaning that the light detected at Kitt Peak had left the objects 10 billion years ago), and both were receding from the earth at two-thirds the speed of light. What was most unusual was that they were only some 150,000 light-years apart-a stone's throw by cosmic standards-and had virtually identical light spectrums, which meant that their physical characteristics, as well as their velocities, were the same...
...innocuous-sounding front-page headline: A CITIZEN WRITES TO A SENATOR. The incendiary subject: hydrogen bomb "secrets" with details and even a crude diagram. Whether any of it could result in an actual bomb would soon be bitterly debated. What was immediately clear was that the paper had blown apart the legal vises tightened against three other publications seeking to print H-bomb exposés and, for the moment, headed off a collision between the First Amendment and the Government's power to decide what constitutes an atomic secret...
...know that the tenor is a being apart ...? He is not a denizen of this world, he is a world in himself...