Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Atomic bombs might be exploded in the air over U.S. cities, under water, or at ground level. Though the effects are different in each case, the principle is the same. At the instant a bomb explodes overhead, fission turns it into a rapidly growing "ball of fire," which dims for an imperceptible instant, then grows to a diameter of 900 feet at a temperature of 7,000° C. (see diagram). Around the fire ball forms a shock wave - a shell of air compressed so tightly that it glows white...
...sure way for us to lose face before the free world is for us to sink to the level of the enemies of freedom...
...both sides of the aisle with special interests to serve went to work on the Spence bill. They amended it to weaken it; they amended it to strengthen it. The House agreed to make price controls mandatory if the cost-of-living index went up 5% above the level of June 15 (food prices had already gone up 2% to 3%); the White House shuddered at such a notion. Other amendments got in the bill: to exempt radio, television, periodicals and insurance underwriters from price control; to chop out a provision for controlling commodity speculation. The real-estate lobby failed...
Where two months' ago military policemen had patrolled the streets in pairs, they now marched in groups of four, with two of them holding their cocked Mausers under their arms, barrels level, ready to shoot. To reinforce the brown-uniformed "chocolate soldiers," hordes of plainclothesmen roamed the streets. Just in case any bogotanos did not get the idea, the army had held maneuvers in Bogota last month, and had "taken the city" in 40 minutes...
...there was no lava or other sign of volcanic activity), and the biggest yet discovered. The lake in the crater (still frozen at the end of July) is 2½ miles across, compared with Arizona's famed meteorite crater, which is four-fifths of a mile across. Its level is about 80 feet above that of other small lakes in the vicinity, and around it is a ring of shattered granite that rises 550 feet above the tundra. The rim is lowest on the northwest side, which suggests that the meteorite came from that direction and hit the ground...