Crossword-Solution: PLUTONIUM
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PLUTONIUM (5)
There's even talk that the missing Plutonium that the Israelis theoretically stole in 1981 was actually a computer error." "What do you want to do about it?" Scott was asking as a friend, not a reporter.
After assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be inserted into the thing or gadget as the atomic device was called.
The Nagasaki weapon was a plutonium bomb, similar to the Trinity device, and it was nicknamed Fat Man.
Jumbo was the code name for the 214-ton Thermos shaped steel and concrete container designed to hold the precious plutonium core of the Trinity device in case of a nuclear mis-fire.
The idea of using some kind of container for the Trinity device was based on the fact that plutonium was extremely expensive and very difficult to produce.
Quotes with PLUTONIUM (3)
The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these bodies had become poisonous.
The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I stepped on one, which I think was either cucumber or watercress. I scraped it off on the curbing, left it there for germs. I'll tell you this, though: No germ is going to leave the Solar System eating sissy stuff like that. Plutonium! Now there's the stuff to put hair on a microbe's chest.
In retrospect, I came to Nagasaki for the regenerative properties. The second atomic bomb blast so many years ago, which had swept up most of the city in a plutonium cloud, had made the city radioactively peace-loving. Reversing the usual cycle that turns victim into perpetrator, the people who stepped from the rubble filled their hearts with a fervent devotion to peace in all its forms. In my mind's eye I see them: wounded and dying, their lungs filled with ash and smoke. Th…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1948–2013).