Word: fractionation
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Sugar Ray Robinson's old wicked grace and his panther's skill were just a fraction off, and the snap was fading from his punch. But the beaten champ was too proud to retire. Sugar Ray went home to Harlem and worked hard to get in shape for another crack at Turpin...
...Viscount is Britain's greatest single commercial victory of the postwar years, but it is only a tiny fraction of Vickers' mighty empire, sprawling over 17 separate divisions. Vickers has 80,000 workers, assets of nearly $400 million; last year its profits hit $20 million on an array of products from aircraft to yzarine (a type of suede cloth for shoes...
...past two years," wrote Martin, "there have been about ten H-bomb explosions, each of them equivalent to from 1,000 to 2,500 A-bombs of the type used at Hiroshima. Their effects are on a scale involving an appreciable fraction of the planet. Certain effects on the atmosphere may upset the natural conditions to which life has become adapted...
Stunned and angry, Rhee sent for his propaganda chief, who hastily announced: "The government feeling is that the fraction must be disregarded and the amendments have therefore been approved." At the next Assembly session, Choi Soon Joo dutifully echoed: "My Saturday announcement was wrong. Today I want to announce that the bill has passed legally." Sixty anti-Rhee assemblymen stormed out of the chamber, crying that the President "has usurped the legislative power...
Temper Tantrums. Possibly the biggest disappointment of the new season is the failure of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca to produce even a fraction of the fun separately that they did together in years past as co-stars of Your Show of Shows. Imogene seems hopelessly bogged down in inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters...