Word: extinguished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alamos and its aftermath left him with "a legacy of concern." Two years later Oppenheimer told his fellow physicists that their weapon had "dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...participated in the development of atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
...Dogs should not be running around loose kissing children," said one faction, which complained that existing rules for leashes and pens were not being properly observed. Earlier they had posted a notice hinting that steps might be taken to extinguish the canine population for good if those regulations were not mere closely followed...
...unknown in history. . . ." Unless the blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...
...fires of undetermined origin broke out within the University early this week, sending local fireman to extinguish fires in Little and Sever Halls, and causing $385 in damages...