Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Neutral Ground. Last week, after a long period of planning, Administration peacemakers tried to bring about a truce between the Secretary and Congress. Their scheme was based on the frank and open approach; they admitted that the Secretary might be a cat, but felt he was such a wonderful cat, so cold of eye, so sharp of claw, so silky of whisker, so clever of mind that even the dogs would admire him if they just got to know him. The Secretary was just back from Europe, full of news of the Western Big Three meeting and of the twelve...
Such departures from the Ochs policy of neutral editorials have troubled Publisher Sulzberger, and he once confided to his wife, "I'm not sure I'm not ruining the Times; we're constantly taking positions." Mrs. Sulzberger advised him to go right on taking them. But the mere fact that Sulzberger was worried showed how long a shadow Adolph Ochs still casts over the Times...
...particles makes a track like a "V," with two branches spreading from a single point in space. Therefore, said Anderson, the particle is neutral (while still whole it leaves no track in the cloud chamber), and it disintegrates into two charged particles that do leave tracks. The second new particle has a charge, and therefore leaves a track. But the track has an angle in it, indicating that the original particle turns (at the angle) into two particles, one with a charge and one neutral...
...very cheering. I don't dare think about the possibilities of reprisals. It's the same for all of us; we all have relatives in Dresden, but if they don't understand down there that we want to sing, that we're neutral, that we can't and don't want to hitch ourselves to a political thing, then we don't have any choice." To add to the nerve-racking situation, the choir was living in a dingy hotel only just inside the U.S. sector boundary, and momentarily expecting a Communist attempt...
...Neutral observers report that only a minority of Viet Minh, 10 to 20 percent, is Communist, though they agree that this minority holds key positions and controls the movement. But Viet Minh's strength is not only its Communist leadership. The nationalist yearnings of a suppressed people help keep the Viet Minh in business...