Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There were indications that the President had all but decided to signal a go-ahead to the scientists. If they were successful-as they believed they might be-the H-bomb would draw on the sun's method of transforming hydrogen into helium (TIME, Jan. 16) to produce an explosion dwarfing the atomic bomb blasts loosed at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini, Eniwetok. One such H-bomb might spread destruction over a radius of ten miles...
Other words spring from men and events. In the 1880s members of the Irish Land League gave the silent treatment to a hated estate agent named Captain Charles Boycott. The method they used stuck, and so did boycott. A century before, France's finance minister, Etienne de Silhouette, introduced a series of such niggardly reforms that his name became a synonym for anything meager and finally for a portrait in barest outline...
Says Dr. Creech cautiously: "This is far from a cure for human cancer." But, he adds, the method is so promising that he is willing to work oh it, if necessary, for the next ten years...
...wish to assure you that my thoughts and prayers are with you in your endeavor to promote the reunion of separated Christians by the only method at present universally practicable, namely prayer ... In this unhappy situation, it is not without interest to quote a statement from the highest authority, Pope Pius XII, made last June: 'Show yourselves towards . . . [non-Catholic Christians] as those who differ, rather than as opponents . . . Unite now with them in charity as far as you are able, since you have long been prepared to give them the fullness of truth...
Results of comprehensive tests with the new method indicate, the scientists report, that it "promises to revolutionize the hybrid corn seed industry...