Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty members who signed an open letter to President Kennedy protesting the Administration's policy on shelters, hopes "that the fact of the professors' signing will have a special effect on students. Students at Harvard have a very special interest in this, since CD always writes off the blast areas...
...being written off," said Pattullo, in pointing out that present discussion about shelters almost invariably begins, "Although there is not much hope for those in the immediate blast area...
...What are the immediate blast areas?" he asked. "That's us in Cambridge, New York, Los Angeles. Students will be the ones to suffer, but they are not being told. There's a real quality of fraud in the present public relations effort for people in the blast areas...
Political Act. Many U.S. military thinkers believe that the Russian blast of a 50-megaton bomb indicates weakness rather than strength: it could mean that the Soviet Union does not have enough missiles to deliver large numbers of smaller, but perhaps more effective, nuclear warheads. But whatever the Soviet military motives for exploding the monster bomb-and not everyone was as optimistic as the military-the free world had no doubt that one of Khrushchev's chief aims was purely and simply to terrorize and intimidate the world...
...Pentagon, Van Fleet's blast was embarrassing, since Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has exposed himself to congressional fire by insisting that military officers refrain from sounding off on national and foreign-policy matters beyond their scope. But the Army happily pointed out that Van Fleet had not yet begun his tour of consultant's duty when he made his speech. That meant that Old Soldier Van Fleet spoke as a civilian-and therefore had a civilian's right to say whatever he chose, no matter how ill-advised his words may have been...