Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threatening to kill people is good: It deters nuclear attack. Threatening to kill weapons is bad because it challenges the retaliatory capability of the other side. An invulnerable nuclear force is the best deterrent, so offense is the best defense, and an effective ballistic missile defense--an ABM--upsets the balance: Defense is offense...
...haired liberal Democrat and 25-year House veteran who represents a Newark-area district with a majority of black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
FRANKFURTER can be found just below Frankenstein in the dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games...
...express disappointment in the content and comments of John Mulliken in his recent article concerning the ABM installation being constructed near Grand Forks...
...place of imaginative and constructive reporting, Mr. Mulliken takes refuge in attempts to be cleverly critical about both the ABM system and the area in which it is located. We do not feel that it is necessary to defend either, but we cannot pass the opportunity to comment that this type of reporting does neither Mr. Mulliken nor your publication justice...