Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fusion of deuterium into helium 3. Powerful electrical discharges can give "false neutrons." formed in other and less important ways, but Scientist Cockcroft is "90% certain" that at least some of ZETA's neutrons come from a thermonuclear reaction. Dr. Thonemann of Harwell does not want to commit himself definitely. U.S. scientists are not sure either. Dr. James Tuck, head of the Los Alamos group, wants to learn more before he makes positive statements...
...spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...
...critics of a general staff system, still led by the Navy and including many a Congressman, can be expected to put up a fight against any such change however labeled. Main lines of their argument: a general staff might 1) drain the separate services of esprit de corps, 2) commit the U.S. to a single, inflexible strategic course that might prove disastrous, and 3) concentrate military power to the extent that a Chief of General Staff could become a man on horseback, riding rough shod over democratic institutions...
...walked up the gangplank, the Japanese Ministry of Justice was still weighing legal protests and public clamorings that Judge Kawachi had been too lenient, that Girard ought to be haled in for retrial. Candy Girard, onetime B-girl, even got notes from Japanese suggesting that she ought to go commit harakiri. But the Justice Ministry decided in the end to let Girard go home. Said the ministry, with remarkably broad understanding of the case's basic meanings: "We pay our respects to the [U.S. Supreme Court] verdict that gave Japan jurisdiction over the case, thereby clarifying the prestige...
Hillman's store soon needed space for expansion and he decided to move rather than commit himself permanently to New York. "It's a wonderful city, the most interesting on this side of the earth, fascinating, complex--but not a very good place to bring our child up," he stated. After a two year search Hillman and his wife settled on Cambridge as the new location. Their store opened here last spring...