Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said: "I think I made it perfectly clear that when we were discussing the B-52 matter--the decision to delay flights of the B-52s for a period of 36 hours--that it related to the fact that the decision, when it was made, related to a period of 36 hours, and there was not a decision point after the decision to delay the flights for 36 hours to again order the resumption...
...before the American repression which followed it in trying to make sense of the old comparisons with Nazi Germany. And in view of the apparently invincible power the United States brought to Indochina, it makes sense to compare Vietnamese resistance--refusals to acknowledge the superiority of phalanxes of B-52s to a rabble in arms--to the best known previous resistance to apparently invincible power. The world's imagination was caught not by the suffering of the Vietnamese people but by its refusal to surrender in the face of suffering. The Vietnamese were not like those Europeans who resigned themselves...
...billion each to produce. The Navy wants Tridents to start replacing Polaris submarines in 1978. The budget also contains $500 million for development of the B-l bomber. The Air Force hopes to buy 244 of them for $11 billion by 1980 as a successor to aging B-52s. In addition, the Air Force wants $20.6 million to test-fire eight Minuteman missiles from their silos in Montana 5,000 miles into the Pacific to demonstrate the system's reliability. The budget also would permit researchers to begin work on several new weapons systems. Among the items...
...tough Lafayette pressing zone defense apart. McGuire called on sophomore guard Mike Dunleavey, Winters and sophomore Bob Mathias, operating from the high post, to shoot from the outside. It wasn't just shooting, though; it was bombing and I don't think if McGuire had called in B-52s he would have had a better long range bombing attack. Some of the shots looked like they originated in downtown Columbia, but they always went...
...destructive results. A few random examples, courtesy of Sherrill's research: Dateline New York. Two youths ask a shopkeeper for apple pie. He offers them Danish pastry instead and is shot dead. Ohio. An engineer living near an Air Force base tattoos a number of bomb-laden B-52s with his deer rifles to protest their takeoffs over his house. California. A Glendale landlady loses an argument with a tenant when he shoots her with a German antitank weapon...