Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not soothe me to hear McNamara say that our ability to vaporize Russia is our best defense. I am more concerned with America's survival than Russia's destruction. What if our deterrent does fail? Are we to shout hurrah because their pile of ashes is bigger than ours? Or are we to congratulate ourselves on how much money we saved...
...certain actions-if he is desperate, he will always be clever enough to find the flaws in someone else's system. Rather, it is his inner feeling of what life is worth to him that will be the all powerful deterrent. This area must not be slighted while bigger and better bomb systems are installed...
...tracks would be covered by a continuous concrete vault that would muffle train noise. Atop the vault would run a traffic-free pedestrian mall dotted with shops, restaurants, theaters and schools and connected to new mixed-income housing on either side. Since the new Harlem apartment buildings would be bigger than the tenements they replace, the planners hope to encourage racial integration. Moreover, because the project would be built in stages, people living in the path of construction could immediately move into adjacent completed portions, thus minimizing urban renewal's thorniest political and human problem-relocation...
Peripatetic President. When Lasker retired and sold off Lord & Thomas to his employees, Foote led the reorganization of the company into today's Foote, Cone & Belding, Inc. He stayed on for eight years, then in 1951 shifted over to bigger McCann-Erickson, Inc. as a vice president. Even in a peripatetic business, Foote moved around more than most. He left McCann not once but twice, the first time over "policy differences," the second because of what he describes as a crisis of conscience. A reformed chain smoker who worried increasingly about cancer, Foote finally decided not to work...
...Spanish-American War, it was Merritt-Chapman that the U.S. Government called on to determine whether the mysterious blast came from inside the hull or outside. Investigators decided that it was external, but some historians still disagree. Years later, the organization was summoned to raise a far bigger hull, the capsized Normandie, which caught fire and turned over at a Manhattan pier during World...