Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon worriers go a step farther than AEC. They argue that the U.S. cannot afford to remain stagnant in nuclear development even if the Soviets do, for clear-cut U.S. nuclear superiority is the best deterrent to attack. A few further nuclear tests, they say, would boost threefold the blast power of the two key U.S. deterrent missiles - the mobile, solid-fueled Polaris and Minuteman -which now carry warheads of one-half megaton, v. an estimated eight megatons for Soviet ICBMs. Testing would also speed development of a next-generation "neutron bomb." Now on the drawing boards, that weapon...
...power to possess the neutron bomb will gain great military superiority and flexibility. By their own admission, the Soviets have been experimenting toward such a bomb since 1952, though there is no evidence that they have tested it. But tests are easy to conceal in the absence of great blast or fallout...
Even for sophisticated missile watchers, the men who have marked the flight of so many of Cape Canaveral's great fire-breathing birds, last week's show was a dazzling spectacle. The blast-off was swift and sure; there was none of that heart-stopping hover of other tests when liquid-fueled monsters seemed to balance in uncertain equilibrium before they picked up the momentum of flight. This time the gleaming, 58-ft. cylinder shot straight up into the sky ahead of its lengthening tail. Three seconds after launch, its guidance system took over, turned it into...
Added Burden. The State of the Union message was not the only target. Hearst newspapers from Boston (the Record) to Los Angeles (the Examiner) ran an editorial blast at Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s appointment as a presidential speechwriter on the ground that he is "politically far, far out," can only be an "added weight" on President Kennedy. Edward R. Murrow's job as chief of the U.S. Information Agency, while welcomed by such columnists as the New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston and the Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, prompted...
...INSCAPE, PARNASSIANISM, PASTORALS, PASSION PLAYS or PASTICHE, and all the trade terminology of literary criticism from Aristotle to Harry Levin to John Crowe Ransom (THE NEW CRITICISM), might still like to get a digested clue to EXISTENTIALISM, SYMBOLISM or even VORTICISM ("A brief literary movement centering around the magazine Blast, which appeared only twice...