Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Credibility. In terms of cold war politics, the small cloud of sand from Nevada was meant to cast a long shadow. The U.S. hoped that the blast, along with a second underground shot that came the next day, and with the others that were soon to follow, would help reestablish what Pentagonese labels "credibility"-meaning Communist belief that the U.S. has the weapons to fight, and the will to use them if need be. Last week the U.S. and its Western allies further advanced credibility with more taut, determined words on the Berlin crisis...
Factory chimneys, grain elevators, the steel pylons of power lines rise above the plains. In the foothills of the Urals, Magnitogorsk lies on the slope of a magnetic mountain, which is fed ton by ton into the city's open-hearth and blast furnaces, making it the greatest metallurgical center in the Soviet Union. Nearby Sverdlovsk used to be known as Ekaterinburg, and was chiefly famous as the spot where, in 1918, the Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II and his family. Today its 800,000 people build machine tools, TV sets, railroad cars and ball bearings...
...developed without many more tests. Even farther away is the much-discussed neutron bomb, which promises to be a small, short-range H-bomb exploded by some other means than the usual "dirty" fission detonator. Its proponents believe that it will kill people by neutrons while its feeble blast and heat will do little damage to property. But before it can be added to the U.S. arsenal, the neutron bomb will require a long and intensive series of tests...
...VIII of the Palais. Scratchy showed no signs of interest, for he was just back from an informative weekend in Moscow. He knew that even as Dean spoke preparations had begun for the Russian nuclear explosion that would not only rip a large hole out of Central Asia, but blast the Geneva talks into oblivion as well...
...medal was too much. Rio's O Globo complained that "hung on the chest of a false Cuban and authentic Communist, the emblem of Christ's Cross has been completely devalued." Sharper still was the blast from sulphur-tongued Carlos Lacerda, governor of Guanabara state (which includes Rio de Janeiro), whose original election-campaign support for Quadros has since changed to dismay at Quadros' flirtation with Communists ("future hangmen of their fathers, spies of their brothers...