Word: neutralization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nameless U.S. statesmen who "are pulled on the strings of the militarists." But that was the last glimmer of fire. For a man who had just stormed out of Paris spewing a blizzard of invective and cracking jokes right and left, his performance was odd, unexpected, and curiously neutral...
...great bulk of the universe, including the stars and most of the matter between them, is made of ionized gases whose atoms have electric charges caused by the effects of heat or radiation. Unlike the earth's familiar water and air, most of whose atoms are electrically neutral, ionized gases are influenced by the magnetic fields that pervade space...
...formed in the heart of a hot and ionized cosmic cloud, Alfven believes, the sun's powerful magnetic field fended off the distant, electrically charged parts of the cloud. Gradually the cloud cooled, and some of its ionized atoms combined with electrons, making the atoms electrically neutral and permitting them to fall toward the sun. After they had fallen a few hundred million miles, they acquired tremendous speed, collided with the thin gas that surrounds the sun, were ionized again by the energy of collision, and then were stopped in their tracks by the sun's magnetic field...
...Kansas last March, Kennedy told reporters that Governor George Docking stood "near the top" of any list of vice-presidential choices, and Kennedy pointedly declined to name any others who were as "outstanding" as the Kansan. Docking is still neutral, but he has a warm spot in his heart for Kennedy...
...defeat. Over and over, he relives in his mind the third round of his fight in Yankee Stadium last June 26, when a series of Johansson right-hands made him the ex-champ. "I don't remember going out." says Patterson. "When I heard the referee say 'neutral corner,' I thought I'd knocked Ingemar out. Then I got up and started to talk and I had this pain in the back of my head and I'd have laid odds that it was the referee who hit me there from behind...