Word: lifeblood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chemical drums exploded like cannon and the fire spread to other trucks; soon tons of meat, eggs, gasoline, cleaning solvent and rags were flaming. River-hemmed Manhattan, which must pump its lifeblood of traffic through overtaxed and distended arteries, reacted like a great organism with a crippling blood clot. As the tunnel's twin tubes were closed, streams of traffic stagnated and honked around its approaches. Electrical cables in the tunnel burned through and the big city's communications began to fail-some radio programs were cut off, Teletypes stopped, 50% of New York's south...
...always would be. In seminars he was forever reading aloud the latest letter from a top physicist friend in Denmark or England, reporting a hot tip just telephoned from Harvard, or commenting on a physical journal fresh from a Japanese press. Privy to this latest scientific,gossip ("the lifeblood of physics," Oppenheimer calls it), his students felt themselves in the vanguard of advancing knowledge...
...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...
...plan is not new, nor the inevitable or feasible answer to every company's problems. But some such way, said Johnston, must be found to do the same thing throughout U.S. industry. He concluded: "Aggressive ambition on the part of the individual is the lifeblood of capitalism. The more of it we can churn into action, the better for us. The two systems of capitalism and socialism will compete throughout the world for the minds of men. The two systems are on trial. In the final analysis that system which provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number...
...halfheartedly supported the Administration's May-Johnson bill, but insisted that its concept of total control should not be the "pattern for the future." Some enforced secrecy was obviously necessary, he said. But he added: "The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics...