Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev should be told repeatedly why his past prevents us from accepting his words, without actions to back them and a means of our checking their compliance. We should always be polite and calm-if he wants to throw tantrums, let him-and go ahead calmly and politely...
...payload as big as a nuclear warhead, the scientists argued, a ballistic missile would have to be uneconomically bulky. So the U.S. channeled its missile efforts into now-obsolescent air-breathing missiles-Snark, Navaho, Regulus, etc.-that were inherently useless for space work. Meanwhile, the Russians were pushing ahead with ballistic missiles. By 1953, when a team of U.S. physicists headed by the late Hungarian-born John von Neumann devised a way of making a thermonuclear warhead small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile of economic size, the Russians had a long head start in ballistic-missile development...
...made with one purpose in mind-to produce the greatest combat capability within the dollars and resources available. As weapons complexities continue to increase, the possibility of their being maintained and operated with a high degree of efficiency by other than members of the active establishment will decrease . . . Looking ahead, I can see the need for only one air reserve component. I personally do not believe we need both the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserve...
Okay, American . . . This is Cessna 163. American, you're pulling ahead...
Negotiations for the Turkish IRBM base began long before President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev began their talks. The decision to go ahead with the new base would show that thaw or no thaw in the cold war, the U.S. cannot afford to lower its guard until realistic action on disarmament and international nuclear control has taken place...