Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...core of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki, had, to a certain extent, been tamed. It would still be a long time before atomic energy would turn a wheel or drive a plane, but the new "fast reactor" (see SCIENCE) was a long step beyond the apocalyptic vision of Bikini...
...bille, a confirmed jitterbug, has written an intimatist novel, La Commandante, which sold 10,000 copies in less than three weeks, and an intimatist poem called The Bikini Yodel...
...time the planners' "year of crisis" comes, Ike Eisenhower and the present commanders of other services will be gone. Sometime next fall, the Veterans Administration's General Omar Bradley will probably take over Ike's job. Atlantic Fleet Commander William ("Spike") Blandy, who ran the Bikini bomb tests, will probably replace Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz as Chief of Naval Operations. Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg, former C.I.G. head, now replacing General Ira Eaker as deputy chief of air, is slated to step into Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's shoes sometime next winter; the Marines' Major General Graves...
Thoroughly relaxed, A.M.A.'s delegates gossiped, gamboled and, for a few days, found nothing much to argue about. But by convention's end, some solemn business demanded attention after all. One grim reminder was a pair of radioactive goats (survivors of Bikini) munching hay in the exhibition hall. Another was an appeal by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson for the doctors' support of a bill to remedy a serious shortage of Army doctors. The Army has only 1,100 Regulars in its Medical Corps, needs 6,000 for its present strength of some...
Last week, Helgoland's tunnels were packed with 6,400 tons of explosive. Birds were warned off with charges of TNT. Then a British naval vessel touched off the biggest bang since Bikini. A sixth of Helgoland slid into the sea. The dagger pointed at Britain was once again dulled-this time, the British hoped, for keeps...