Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Joliot-Curie, French atom scientist, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. One delegate to get through was Pablo Picasso, Spanish-born painter. "C'est terrible" cried Picasso, describing the thorough security screening of congress delegates arriving on cross-channel steamers...
Professor Cecil Frank Powell, 46, the committeeman who won the $31,715 prize for physics, got his award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done...
...Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...
Chicken or Rat? At 42, Lorjou is a solitary, dead-serious Parisian who makes his living designing fabrics. His Atomic Age rates an "A" for effort, but it is clumsily drawn, and not so much composed as thrown together. Eying the crammed confusion of Lorjou's canvas, one unmoved gallerygoer remarked: "One atom bomb and all that will be left is the chicken, or perhaps only...
...When the atom bomb landed on Allied headquarters in Paris, the boiling waters of the Seine surged into the streets of the stricken city. There appeared to be "nothing else in the world but a crimson-purple glare and sound, deafening, all-embracing, continuing sound ... A great ball, of crimson-purple fire, like a maddening living thing that seemed to be whirling about very rapidly amidst a chaos of falling masonry that seemed to be ... burrowing into [the earth] like a blazing rabbit...