Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made Key West his vacationland is now the town's biggest asset. Because of the Truman boom, air-conditioned motels are blooming like red spider lilies in October, new stores are opening, restaurants are crowded, the sidewalks are flowing with women in shorts and halters and men in atom-flash sport shirts. Harry Truman promptly got into the gay spirit, appeared for a press conference wearing soft blue wash slacks, white shoes and a white tail-out shirt decorated with bright blue sea gulls...
Winston Churchill, when he led the Opposition against the late Labor government, complained tellingly about Britain's failure to produce atomic bombs of its own. "It is indeed depressing," he said in the House of Commons last February, "that we have been outstripped by the Soviets in this field." So far as the public knows, Britain still hasn't produced a bomb, but last week it proudly hailed a byproduct. British nuclear scientists have learned how to heat a building by tapping the heat given off by a reactor. Beginning this week, a building with 80 offices...
...Southwest, land of rockets, atom bombs and flying saucers, had another sensation last week: green fireballs streaking across the sky, behaving like nothing ever seen by earthlings before. In 13 days, eight brilliant objects dazzled Southwesterners. According to Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico (TIME, Nov. 12), a fall of nine bright meteorites in a year over a comparable area would be considered exceptional. "I just don't know what to make of it," said Dr. LaPaz. "I am almost inclined to ask those [atom bomb] fellows out in Nevada...
Such emphasis is very necessary when a country is still fighting a war after its troops have advanced beyond pre-battle boundaries, when a record peacetime arms budget has been passed by its lawmakers, when Atom Bomb Number Five has become such a common-place reality that the country's tourists are attracted...
...difficult to predict the result of this new offensive. If, in spite of the tremendous odds against a Russian agreement to an arms census, disarmament did take place, there would be a great saving in money and human life--and Atom Bomb Number Forty-Seven would never be exploded...